New American Bible, Revised Edition

Ecclesiastes 3:5-12 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

5. A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them;a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.

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 be silent, and a time to speak.

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

9. What profit have workers from their toil?

10. I have seen the business that God has given to mortals to be busied about.

11. God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless into their hearts so they cannot find out, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.

12. I recognized that there is nothing better than to rejoice and to do well during life.