Ecclesiastes 3:1“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
Read in context: Ecclesiastes chapter 3 (full chapter) · JPS 1917 translation (public domain)
The Tanakh · JPS 1917 Translation
Ecclesiastes 3:1 — Tanakh (JPS 1917)
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” — read online, free, in the JPS 1917 translation.
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” — Qohelet's poem of seasons.
Also read in the Bible (KJV): Ecclesiastes 3:1 → · Why do two versions of this verse exist?
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What does Ecclesiastes 3:1 teach?
The Preacher reflects that life's opposites — birth and death, weeping and laughing — each have their appointed time, and that God has made everything beautiful in its time.
What translation is this?
This is the 1917 Jewish Publication Society translation — the classic public domain English rendering of the Hebrew Bible.
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