1All things have time, and all things under [the] sun pass by their spaces.

2Time of birth, and time of dying; time to plant, and time to draw up that that is planted.

3Time to slay, and time to make whole; time to destroy, and time to build.

4Time to weep, and time to laugh; time to bewail, and time to dance.

5Time to scatter stones, and time to gather together; time to embrace, and time to be far from embracings, or embraces.

6Time to get, and time to lose; time to keep, and time to cast away.

7Time to cut, and time to sew together; time to be still, and time to speak.

8Time to love, and time of hatred; time of battle, and time of peace.

9What hath a man more of his travail?

10I saw the torment, which God gave to the sons of men, that they be occupied therein.

11God made all things good in their time, and gave the world to disputing of them, that a man find not the work that God hath wrought from the beginning unto the end.

12And I knew that nothing was better to a man, but to be glad, and to do good works in his life.

13For why each man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his travail; this is the gift of God.

14I have learned that all the works, that God made, last steadfastly unto without end; we may not add anything to those works, neither take away from those things, which God made, that he be dreaded.

15That thing that is made, dwelleth perfectly; those things that shall come, were before; and God restoreth that, that is gone.

16I saw under [the] sun unfaithfulness in the place of doom; and wickedness in the place of rightfulness.

17And I said in mine heart, The Lord shall deem a just [or rightwise] man, and an unfaithful man; and the time of each thing shall be then.

18I said in mine heart of the sons of men, that God should prove them, and show that they be like beasts.

19Therefore one is the perishing of man and of beasts, and even condition is of ever either; as a man dieth, so and those beasts die; all those breathe in like manner, and a man hath nothing more than a beast. All things be subject to vanity,

20and all things go to one place; those be made of earth, and those turn again altogether into earth.

21Who knoweth, if the spirit[s] of the sons of Adam goeth upward, and if the spirits of beasts goeth downward?

22And I perceived that nothing is better, than that a man be glad in his work, and that this be his part; for who shall bring him, that he know things that shall come after him?