1 For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun. 2 A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting; 3 A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up; 4 A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing; 5 A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing; 6 A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away; 7 A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk; 8 A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace. 9 What profit has the worker in the work which he does? 10 I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man. 11 He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last. 12 I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him. 13 And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God. 14 I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him. 15 Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past. 16 And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there. 17 I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him. 18 I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts. 19 Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose. 20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again. 21 Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth? 22 So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work — because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?
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Referencias cruzadas (22)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Eclesiastés 3:17; Mateo 16:3; Eclesiastés 8:5–6; Eclesiastés 7:14; 2 Reyes 5:26
- 2 Hebreos 9:27; Job 14:5; Mateo 15:13; Jeremías 18:7–10; Juan 16:21
- 3 Oseas 6:1–2; 1 Samuel 2:6; Jeremías 45:4; Jeremías 31:28; Deuteronomio 32:39
- 4 Romanos 12:15; Salmo 30:5; Santiago 4:9; Juan 16:20–22; Salmo 126:1–2
- 5 2 Reyes 3:25; Josué 10:27; Josué 4:3–9; Joel 2:16; 1 Samuel 21:4–5
- 6 Filipenses 3:7–8; Lucas 9:24–25; Marcos 8:35–37; Mateo 16:25–26; Marcos 10:28–30
- 7 Miqueas 7:5; Amós 5:13; Ester 4:13–14; Lamentaciones 3:28; Hechos 4:20
- 8 Efesios 5:25; Efesios 5:28–29; Lucas 14:26; 1 Reyes 5:4; 2 Crónicas 19:2
- 9 Eclesiastés 1:3; Proverbios 14:23; Eclesiastés 5:16; Eclesiastés 2:22–23; Mateo 16:26
- 10 Eclesiastés 1:13–14; Génesis 3:19; Eclesiastés 2:26; 1 Tesalonicenses 2:9; 2 Tesalonicenses 3:8
- 11 Romanos 11:33; Romanos 1:19–20; Job 11:7; Eclesiastés 8:17; Job 5:9
- 12 Salmo 37:3; Eclesiastés 3:22; 1 Timoteo 6:18; 1 Tesalonicenses 5:15–16; Hechos 20:35
- 13 Eclesiastés 9:7; Eclesiastés 2:24; Isaías 65:21–23; Salmo 128:2; Eclesiastés 5:18–20
- 14 Santiago 1:17; Salmo 33:11; Romanos 11:36; Hechos 5:39; Proverbios 30:6
- 15 Eclesiastés 1:9–10; Eclesiastés 6:10
- 16 Eclesiastés 4:1; Eclesiastés 5:8; 1 Reyes 21:9–21; Salmo 58:1–2; Hechos 23:3
- 17 2 Corintios 5:10; Eclesiastés 12:14; Eclesiastés 3:1; Mateo 16:27; Salmo 98:9
- 18 Salmo 73:22; Salmo 49:12; Hebreos 9:27; 2 Pedro 2:12; Génesis 3:17–19
- 19 Salmo 49:12; Salmo 49:20; Job 14:10–12; Eclesiastés 2:14; Salmo 89:47–48
- 20 Génesis 3:19; Job 34:15; Eclesiastés 12:7; Números 27:13; Job 10:9–10
- 21 Eclesiastés 12:7; Juan 14:3; 2 Corintios 5:1; Lucas 16:22–23; Filipenses 1:23
- 22 Eclesiastés 2:24; Eclesiastés 3:11–12; Eclesiastés 8:7; Eclesiastés 6:12; Eclesiastés 10:14
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… knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?" or of beast, as in the book of Solomon, "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" or of that physical spirit which is called wind, for so the Psalmist calls it: …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
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 …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
As of even honey repletion and satiety, though it be of honey, produce vomiting; and, as Solomon says and I think, there is a time for every thing, and that which is good ceases to be good if it be not done in a good way; just as a flower is quite out of season in winter, and just as …
Leer en contexto · 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 …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
And, accordingly, if these last had been still alive at the advent of our Lord, when the time not of casting stones away but of gathering them together had come, they would have immediately made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)