English Revised Version

Ecclesiastes 3:3-12 English Revised Version (ERV)

3. a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

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;

6. a time to seek, 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;

8. a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

9. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

10. I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

11. He hath made every thing beautiful in its time: also he hath set the world in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

12. I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.