Ecclesiastes · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Ecclesiastes 3 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 To all things there is a time, And a season for every matter under heaven.
1 PARA todas las cosas hay sazón, y todo lo que se quiere debajo del cielo, [tiene su] tiempo:
2 A time of birth, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what has been planted;
2 Tiempo de nacer, y tiempo de morir; tiempo de plantar, y tiempo de arrancar lo plantado;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to pull down, and a time to build up;
3 Tiempo de matar, y tiempo de curar; tiempo de destruir, y tiempo de edificar;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to lament, and a time to dance;
4 Tiempo de llorar, y tiempo de reir; tiempo de endechar, y tiempo de bailar;
5 A time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to abstain from embracing;
5 Tiempo de esparcir las piedras, y tiempo de allegar las piedras; tiempo de abrazar, y tiempo de alejarse de abrazar;
6 A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away;
6 Tiempo de agenciar, y tiempo de perder; tiempo de guardar, y tiempo de arrojar;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to be silent, and a time to speak;
7 Tiempo de romper, y tiempo de coser; tiempo de callar, y tiempo de hablar;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace.
8 Tiempo de amar, y tiempo de aborrecer; tiempo de guerra, y tiempo de paz.
9 What advantage [has] he that works in those things wherein he labors?
9 ¿Qué provecho tiene el que trabaja en lo que trabaja?
10 I have seen all the trouble, Which God has given to the sons of men to be troubled with.
10 Yo he visto el trabajo que Dios ha dado á los hijos de los hombres para que en él se ocupasen.
11 All the things which he has made are beautiful in his time: He has also set the whole world in their heart, That man might not find out The work which God has wrought from the beginning even to the end.
11 Todo lo hizo hermoso en su tiempo: y aun el mundo dió en su corazón, de tal manera que no alcance el hombre la obra de Dios desde el principio hasta el cabo.
12 I know that there is no good in them, Except [for a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
12 Yo he conocido que no hay mejor para ellos, que alegrarse, y hacer bien en su vida:
13 Also [in the case of] every man who shall eat and drink, And see good in all his labor, [This] is a gift of God.
13 Y también que es don de Dios que todo hombre coma y beba, y goce el bien de toda su labor.
14 I know that whatsoever things God has done, They shall be forever: It is impossible to add to it, And it is impossible to take away from it: And God has done [it], that [men] may fear before him.
14 He entendido que todo lo que Dios hace, eso será perpetuo: sobre aquello no se añadirá, ni de ello se disminuirá; y hácelo Dios, para que delante de él teman los hombres.
15 That which has been is now; And whatever things [are appointed] to be have already been; And God will seek out that which is past.
15 Aquello que fué, ya es: y lo que ha de ser, fué ya; y Dios restaura lo que pasó.
16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, There was the ungodly one; And the place of righteousness, There was the godly one.
16 Vi más debajo del sol: en lugar del juicio, allí la impiedad; y en lugar de la justicia, allí la iniquidad.
17 And I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the ungodly: For there is a time there for every action And for every work.
17 Y dije yo en mi corazón: Al justo y al impío juzgará Dios; porque allí hay tiempo á todo lo que se quiere y sobre todo lo que se hace.
18 I said in my heart, Concerning the speech of the sons of man, God will judge them, And that to show that they are beasts.
18 Dije en mi corazón, en orden á la condición de los hijos de los hombres, que Dios los probaría, para que así echaran de ver ellos mismos que son [semejantes] á las bestias.
19 Also to them is the event of the sons of man, And the event of the brute; One event befalls them: As is the death of the one, so also the death of the other; And there is one breath to all: And what has the man more than the brute? Nothing; for all is vanity.
19 Porque el suceso de los hijos de los hombres, y el suceso del animal, el mismo suceso es: como mueren los unos, así mueren los otros; y una misma respiración tienen todos; ni tiene más el hombre que la bestia: porque todo es vanidad.
20 All [go] to one place; All were formed of the dust, And all will return to dust.
20 Todo va á un lugar: todo es hecho del polvo, y todo se tornará en el mismo polvo.
21 And who has seen the spirit of the sons of man, Whether it goes upward? And the spirit of the beast, Whether it goes downward to the earth?
21 ¿Quién sabe que el espíritu de los hijos de los hombres suba arriba, y que el espíritu del animal descienda debajo de la tierra?
22 And I saw that there was no good, But that wherein a man shall rejoice in his works, For it is his portion, For who shall bring him to see anything of that which shall be after him?
22 Así que he visto que no hay cosa mejor que alegrarse el hombre con lo que hiciere; porque esta es su parte: porque ¿quién lo llevará para que vea lo que ha de ser después de él?
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ecclesiastes 3:17; Matthew 16:3; Ecclesiastes 8:5–6; Ecclesiastes 7:14; 2 Kings 5:26
- 2 Hebrews 9:27; Job 14:5; Matthew 15:13; Jeremiah 18:7–10; John 16:21
- 3 Hosea 6:1–2; 1 Samuel 2:6; Jeremiah 45:4; Jeremiah 31:28; Deuteronomy 32:39
- 4 Romans 12:15; Psalm 30:5; James 4:9; John 16:20–22; Psalm 126:1–2
- 5 2 Kings 3:25; Joshua 10:27; Joshua 4:3–9; Joel 2:16; 1 Samuel 21:4–5
- 6 Philippians 3:7–8; Luke 9:24–25; Mark 8:35–37; Matthew 16:25–26; Mark 10:28–30
- 7 Micah 7:5; Amos 5:13; Esther 4:13–14; Lamentations 3:28; Acts 4:20
- 8 Ephesians 5:25; Ephesians 5:28–29; Luke 14:26; 1 Kings 5:4; 2 Chronicles 19:2
- 9 Ecclesiastes 1:3; Proverbs 14:23; Ecclesiastes 5:16; Ecclesiastes 2:22–23; Matthew 16:26
- 10 Ecclesiastes 1:13–14; Genesis 3:19; Ecclesiastes 2:26; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8
- 11 Romans 11:33; Romans 1:19–20; Job 11:7; Ecclesiastes 8:17; Job 5:9
- 12 Psalm 37:3; Ecclesiastes 3:22; 1 Timothy 6:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:15–16; Acts 20:35
- 13 Ecclesiastes 9:7; Ecclesiastes 2:24; Isaiah 65:21–23; Psalm 128:2; Ecclesiastes 5:18–20
- 14 James 1:17; Psalm 33:11; Romans 11:36; Acts 5:39; Proverbs 30:6
- 15 Ecclesiastes 1:9–10; Ecclesiastes 6:10
- 16 Ecclesiastes 4:1; Ecclesiastes 5:8; 1 Kings 21:9–21; Psalm 58:1–2; Acts 23:3
- 17 2 Corinthians 5:10; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Ecclesiastes 3:1; Matthew 16:27; Psalm 98:9
- 18 Psalm 73:22; Psalm 49:12; Hebrews 9:27; 2 Peter 2:12; Genesis 3:17–19
- 19 Psalm 49:12; Psalm 49:20; Job 14:10–12; Ecclesiastes 2:14; Psalm 89:47–48
- 20 Genesis 3:19; Job 34:15; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Numbers 27:13; Job 10:9–10
- 21 Ecclesiastes 12:7; John 14:3; 2 Corinthians 5:1; Luke 16:22–23; Philippians 1:23
- 22 Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:11–12; Ecclesiastes 8:7; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Ecclesiastes 10:14
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And what Solomon spoke of others will suit you also; for he said, in that case, There is a time to bear and a time to die; but to you, in the reverse order, there was a time to die and a time to be born; and one and the same time effected both of these, and your birth …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Or perhaps this was the time for silence spoken of by Solomon the wise. For, when life is buffeted by so fierce a storm that all the intelligence of those who are instructed in the word is filled with the deceit of false reasoning and confounded, like an eye filled with dust, when men are stunned by strange and awful …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)