1 For everything there is an appointed time, and a season for every purpose under heaven. 2 There is a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pull up plants, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build up. 4 There is a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5 a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones, a time to embrace other people, and a time to refrain from embracing. 6 There is a time to look for things and a time to stop looking, a time to keep things and a time to throw away things, 7 a time to tear clothing and a time to repair clothing, a time to keep silent and a time to speak. 8 There is a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. 9 What profit does the worker gain in his labor? 10 I have seen the work that God has given to human beings to complete. 11 God has made everything suitable for its own time. He has also placed eternity in their hearts. But mankind cannot understand the deeds that God has done, from their beginning all the way to their end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for anyone than to rejoice and to do good so long as he lives— 13 and that everyone should eat and drink, and should understand how to enjoy the good that comes from all his work. This is a gift from God. 14 I know that whatever God does lasts forever. Nothing can be added to it or taken away, because it is God who has done it so that people will approach him with honor. 15 Whatever exists has already existed; whatever will exist has already existed. God makes human beings seek hidden things. 16 I have seen the wickedness that is under the sun, where there should be justice, and in place of righteousness, wickedness was there. 17 I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked at the right time for every matter and every deed.” 18 I said in my heart, “God tests human beings to show them that they are like animals.” 19 For the fate of the children of mankind and the fate of animals is the same fate for them. The death of one is like the death of the other. The breath is the same for all of them. There is no advantage for mankind over the animals. For is not everything just a breath? 20 Everything is going to the same place. Everything comes from the dust, and everything returns to the dust. 21 Who knows whether the spirit of mankind goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward into the earth? 22 So again I realized that there is nothing better for anyone than to take pleasure in his work, for that is his assignment. Who can bring him back to see what happens 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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Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
… 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)