Then Elisha said to him, “Didn’t my heart go, when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to accept money and accept clothes, or olive groves and vineyards, or sheep and oxen, or male and female servants?
Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Tree of Life Version For everything there is a season and a time for every activity under heaven: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition TO EVERYTHING there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under 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. |
Then Elisha said to him, “Didn’t my heart go, when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to accept money and accept clothes, or olive groves and vineyards, or sheep and oxen, or male and female servants?
In his distress, he entreated Adonai his God and greatly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
A person has joy in an appropriate answer— how good is a timely word.
Finish your outdoor work and get your fields ready. After that, build your house.
I applied my heart to seek and examine by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a burdensome task God has given the sons of men to keep them occupied.
And so I hated life, because the work done under the sun was grievous to me. All is but vapor and chasing after the wind.
I thought deeply about how to cheer my flesh with wine—letting my heart guide me with wisdom—and how to grasp folly, so that I could see what was worthwhile for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
I said in my heart: “The righteous and the wicked, God will judge. For there is a time for every activity and for every deed.”
In a time of prosperity, prosper! But in a time of adversity, consider: God has made one as well as the other. Therefore man cannot discover anything about his future.
They cried there: ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise! He let the opportune time pass.’
and in the morning, ‘Stormy weather today, for the sky is red and gloomy.’ You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times!