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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ecclesiastes 3 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ecclesiastes/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ecclesiastes/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Ecclesiastes 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ecclesiastes/2.htm" title="Ecclesiastes 2">◄</a> Ecclesiastes 3 <a href="../ecclesiastes/4.htm" title="Ecclesiastes 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/ecclesiastes/3-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">To Everything There Is a Season<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>To all a season, and a time to every inclination under the heavens:<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up the planting.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build:<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance:<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>A time to cast away stones, and a time to collect stones a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embracing:<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to watch, and a time to cast away.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak:<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace:<p> <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Works Remain Forever<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>What the excellence of him working in what he labored? <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I saw the labor which God gave to the sons of man to be humbled in it.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He made everything beautiful in his time: also he gave hidden time in their heart, so that man shall not find the work which God did from the beginning and even to the end.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I knew that no good is in them, but to rejoice and to do good in his life. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And also every man shall eat and drink, and see the good in all his labor; it is the gift of God. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I knew that all which God will do it shall be forever: to it not to be added, and from it not to be taken away: and God doing they shall be afraid from his face. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>What was, it is already; and what to be, was already; and God will seek him being driven away.<p> <A name="17"></a><p class="hdg">From Dust to Dust<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And yet I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there the unjust one; and the place of the just one, there the unjust one. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I said in my heart, The just one and the unjust one, God will judge: for a time for every inclination and for every work there. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I said in my heart concerning the speeches of the sons of man, for God to separate them, and for them to see that they are cattle to themselves. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For the event of the sons of man, and the event of the cattle, one event to them: as this, so dies this; and the breath of one to all; and the preeminence of man not above the cattle: for all is vanity. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>All go to one place; all were from dust, and all turned back to dust. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Who shall know the spirit of the sons of man? it ascending to above, and the spirit of cattle, it going downwards to the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And I saw that no good more than that man shall rejoice in his works; for this is his portion: for who shall bring him to look upon what shall be after him?<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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