(3:1-8) "To everything there is a season."
Some nice poetry and a great Byrds song. ("Turn, Turn, Turn" -- written by Pete Seeger)
(3:1) "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:"
(3:2) "A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;"
(3:3) "A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;"
(3:4) "A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;" Is it OK to dance?
(3:5) "A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;"
(3:6) "A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;"
(3:7) "A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;"
(3:8) "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace."
(3:11a) "He hath made every thing beautiful."
Everything is beautiful in its own way. Parasitic worms, cancer cells, bubonic plague. You just have to look at it from God's eyes.
(3:11b) "No man can find out the work that God maketh."
Science is impossible. We can learn nothing at all about the natural world.
(3:12-13) Strive to enjoy and do good in this life. You only get one chance.
(3:12) "I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice,
and to do good in his life."
(3:13) "Every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his
labour."
3:1To every thing there is
a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
3:2A time to be born, and a
time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3:3A time to kill, and a
time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
3:4A time to weep, and a
time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
3:5A time to cast away
stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time
to refrain from embracing;
3:6A time to get, and a
time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
3:7A time to rend, and a
time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
3:8A time to love, and a
time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
3:9
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
3:10
I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be
exercised in it.
3:11He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world
in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from
the beginning to the end.
3:12I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do
good in his life.
3:13And also that every man should eat and
drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
3:14
I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be
put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should
fear before him.
3:15
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been;
and God requireth that which is past.
3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness
was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
3:17
I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for
there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
3:18
I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God
might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are
beasts.
3:19For that which
befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them:
as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that
a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
(3:19-22) Men and animals both die and their spirits
don't survive death. Is death final?
(3:19) "For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth,
so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity."
(3:20) "All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again."
(3:21) "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?"
(3:22) "Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works."
3:20All go unto one place;
all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
3:21Who knoweth the spirit
of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to
the earth?
3:22
Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice
in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what
shall be after him?
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