Elisha said to him, Did not my spirit go with you when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money, garments, olive orchards, vineyards, sheep, oxen, menservants, and maidservants?
Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Amplified Bible - Classic Edition TO EVERYTHING there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: American Standard Version (1901) For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: Common English Bible There’s a season for everything and a time for every matter under the heavens: Catholic Public Domain Version All things have their time, and all things under heaven continue during their interval. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven. English Standard Version 2016 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: |
Elisha said to him, Did not my spirit go with you when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money, garments, olive orchards, vineyards, sheep, oxen, menservants, and maidservants?
When he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
A man has joy in making an apt answer, and a word spoken at the right moment–how good it is!
[Put first things first.] Prepare your work outside and get it ready for yourself in the field; and afterward build your house and establish a home.
And I applied myself by heart and mind to seek and search out by [human] wisdom all human activity under heaven. It is a miserable business which God has given to the sons of man with which to busy themselves.
So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a striving after the wind and a feeding on it.
I searched in my mind how to cheer my body with wine–yet at the same time having my mind hold its course and guide me with [human] wisdom–and how to lay hold of folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.
I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time [appointed] for every matter and purpose and for every work.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider that God has made the one side by side with the other, so that man may not find out anything that shall be after him.
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is destroyed and is only a noise; he has let the appointed time [in which God had him on probation] pass by!
And in the morning, It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and has a gloomy and threatening look. You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.