¹　神规划万事叫人敬畏他

¹To everything — a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

²生有时，死有时；栽种有时，拔出所种的也有时；

²A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.

³杀戮有时，医治有时；拆毁有时，建造有时；

³A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up.

⁴哭有时，笑有时；哀恸有时，踊跃有时；

⁴A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip.

⁵拋掷石头有时，堆聚石头有时；拥抱有时，避免拥抱有时；

⁵A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing.

⁶寻找有时，舍弃有时；保存有时，拋弃有时；

⁶A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away.

⁷撕裂有时，缝补有时；静默有时，讲话有时；

⁷A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.

⁸爱有时，恨有时；战争有时，和平有时。

⁸A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.

⁹作工的人在自己的劳碌上得到什么益处呢？

⁹What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

¹⁰我看　神给予世人的担子，是要他们为此烦恼。

¹⁰I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

¹¹他使万事各按其时，成为美好；他又把永恒的意识放在人的心里；虽然这样，人还是不能察觉　神自始至终的作为。

¹¹The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

¹²我晓得人生最好是寻乐享福，

¹²I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

¹³人人有吃有喝，在自己的一切劳碌中自得其乐；这就是　神的恩赐。

¹³yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it [is] a gift of God.

¹⁴我知道　神所作的一切，都必永存，无可增添，无可减少；　神这样作，为要使人在他面前存敬畏的心。

¹⁴I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.

¹⁵现在有的，先前就有；将来有的，早已有了；因为　神使已过的事重新出现（“　神使已过的事重新出现”原文作“　神寻回已过的事”）。

¹⁵What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which [is] to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.

¹⁶　神的审判都有定时我在日光之下又看见：审判的地方有奸恶，维护公义的地方也有奸恶。

¹⁶And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment — there [is] the wicked; and the place of righteousness — there [is] the wicked.

¹⁷我自己心里说：“　神必审判义人和恶人，因为各样事务、各样工作都有定时。”

¹⁷I said in my heart, `The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time [is] to every matter and for every work there.`

¹⁸我自己心里说：“至于世人，　神要试验他们，使他们看见自己与牲畜无异。

¹⁸I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves [are] beasts.

¹⁹因为世人所遭遇的与牲畜所遭遇的，都是一样：这个怎样死，那个也怎样死，两者的气息都是一样，所以人并不胜于牲畜。一切都是虚空。

¹⁹For an event [is to] the sons of man, and an event [is to] the beasts, even one event [is] to them; as the death of this, so [is] the death of that; and one spirit [is] to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole [is] vanity.

²⁰大家都到一个地方去，都出于尘土，也都归回尘土。

²⁰The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.

²¹有谁知道人的灵是往上升，牲畜的魂（“魂”的原文与“灵”〔3:21〕和“气息”〔3:19〕相同）是下降而入地呢？”

²¹Who knoweth the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below to the earth?

²²因此我看人最好是在自己所作的事上自得其乐，因为这也是他的分；谁能使他看见他自己死后的事呢？

²²And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it [is] his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?