1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 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 he laboureth? 10 I have seen the task 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 get pleasure so long as they live. 13 But also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy pleasure for all his labour, is the gift of God. 14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it; and God hath so made it, that men should fear before Him. 15 That which is hath been long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and God seeketh that which is pursued. 16 And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there. 17 I said in my heart: 'The righteous and the wicked God will judge; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.' 18 I said in my heart: 'It is because of the sons of men, that God may sift them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.' 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that man hath no pre-eminence above a beast; for all is vanity. 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust. 21 Who knoweth the spirit of man whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast whether it goeth downward to the earth? 22 Wherefore I perceived that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Eclesiastés · Tanaj de la JPS (1917)
Eclesiastés 3 Tanaj de la JPS (1917)
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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)