International Children’s Bible

Ecclesiastes 3:6-16 International Children’s Bible (ICB)

6. There is a time to look for somethingand a time to stop looking for it.There is a time to keep thingsand a time to throw things away.

7. There is a time to tear apartand a time to sew together.There is a time to be silentand a time to speak.

8. There is a time to loveand a time to hate.There is a time for warand a time for peace.

9. Does a person really gain anything from his work?

10. I saw the hard work God has given us to do.

11. God has also given us a desire to know the future. God certainly does everything at just the right time. But we can never completely understand what he is doing.

12. So I realize that the best thing for people is to be happy. They should enjoy themselves as long as they live.

13. God wants everyone to eat and drink and be happy in his work. These are gifts from God.

14. I know anything God does will continue forever. People cannot add anything to what God has done. And they cannot take anything away from it. God does it this way to cause people to honor him.

15. What happens now has also happened in the past.Things that will happen in the future have also happened before.God makes the same things happen again and again.

16. I also saw this here on earth:Where there should have been justice, there was evil.Where there should have been fairness, there was wickedness.