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Ecclesiastes 3
Biblia Sacra Vulgata
Ecclesiastes 3
Biblia Sacra Vulgata
3 Omnia tempus habent, et suis spatiis transeunt universa sub caelo.
2 Tempus nascendi, et tempus moriendi; tempus plantandi, et tempus evellendi quod plantatum est.
3 Tempus occidendi, et tempus sanandi; tempus destruendi, et tempus aedificandi.
4 Tempus flendi, et tempus ridendi; tempus plangendi, et tempus saltandi.
5 Tempus spargendi lapides, et tempus colligendi, tempus amplexandi, et tempus longe fieri ab amplexibus.
6 Tempus acquirendi, et tempus perdendi; tempus custodiendi, et tempus abjiciendi.
7 Tempus scindendi, et tempus consuendi; tempus tacendi, et tempus loquendi.
8 Tempus dilectionis, et tempus odii; tempus belli, et tempus pacis.
9 Quid habet amplius homo de labore suo?
10 Vidi afflictionem quam dedit Deus filiis hominum, ut distendantur in ea.
11 Cuncta fecit bona in tempore suo, et mundum tradidit disputationi eorum, ut non inveniat homo opus quod operatus est Deus ab initio usque ad finem.
12 Et cognovi quod non esset melius nisi laetari, et facere bene in vita sua;
13 omnis enim homo qui comedit et bibit, et videt bonum de labore suo, hoc donum Dei est.
14 Didici quod omnia opera quae fecit Deus perseverent in perpetuum; non possumus eis quidquam addere, nec auferre, quae fecit Deus ut timeatur.
15 Quod factum est, ipsum permanet; quae futura sunt jam fuerunt, et Deus instaurat quod abiit.
16 Vidi sub sole in loco judicii impietatem, et in loco justitiae iniquitatem:
17 et dixi in corde meo: Justum et impium judicabit Deus, et tempus omnis rei tunc erit.
18 Dixi in corde meo de filiis hominum, ut probaret eos Deus, et ostenderet similes esse bestiis.
19 Idcirco unus interitus est hominis et jumentorum, et aequa utriusque conditio. Sicut moritur homo, sic et illa moriuntur. Similiter spirant omnia, et nihil habet homo jumento amplius: cuncta subjacent vanitati,
20 et omnia pergunt ad unum locum. De terra facta sunt, et in terram pariter revertuntur.
21 Quis novit si spiritus filiorum Adam ascendat sursum, et si spiritus jumentorum descendat deorsum?
22 Et deprehendi nihil esse melius quam laetari hominem in opere suo, et hanc esse partem illius. Quis enim eum adducet ut post se futura cognoscat?
Ecclesiastes 3
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 3
New International Version
A Time for Everything
3 There is a time(A) for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,(B)
3 a time to kill(C) and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent(D) 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 do workers gain from their toil?(E) 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.(F) 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time.(G) He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom(H) what God has done from beginning to end.(I) 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink,(J) and find satisfaction(K) in all their toil—this is the gift of God.(L) 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.(M)
15 Whatever is has already been,(N)
and what will be has been before;(O)
and God will call the past to account.[b]
16 And I saw something else under the sun:
In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
17 I said to myself,
“God will bring into judgment(P)
both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
a time to judge every deed.”(Q)
18 I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.(R) 19 Surely the fate of human beings(S) is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath[c]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.(T) 21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward(U) and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work,(V) because that is their lot.(W) For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 3:11 Or also placed ignorance in the human heart, so that
- Ecclesiastes 3:15 Or God calls back the past
- Ecclesiastes 3:19 Or spirit
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