Ecclesiastes/Qohelet 3

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:	1 All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven.
2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;	2 A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;	3 A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;	4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;	5 A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;	6 A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.
7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;	7 A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.
8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.	8 A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What gain has the worker from his toil?	9 What hath man more of his labour?
10 I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with	10 I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.	11 He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot flnd out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.
12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;	12 And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.
13 also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.	13 For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.
14 I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him.	14 I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared.
15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.	15 That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.
16 Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.	16 I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.
17 I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.	17 And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.
18 I said in my heart with regard to the sons of men that God is testing them to show them that they are but beasts.	18 I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.
19 For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity.	19 Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.
20 All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.	20 And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.
21 Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down to the earth?	21 Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?
22 So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should enjoy his work, for that is his lot; who can bring him to see what will be after him?	22 And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him?