Ecclesiastes 3:1 (BSB)

To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

From Ecclesiastes 3. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Ecclesiastes 3:1

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Ecclesiastes 3:1-10: The scope of these verses is to show, 1. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur promiscuously, and we are continually passing and repassing between them, as in the revolutions of every day and every year.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Ecclesiastes 3:1: To every thing there is a season,.... A set determined time, when everything shall come into being, how long it shall continue, and in what circumstances; all things that have been, are, or shall be, were foreordained by God, and he has determined the times before appointed for their being, duration, and end; which times and seasons he has in his own power: there was...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Ecclesiastes 3:1: To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: (a) He speaks of this diversity of time for two causes first to declare that there is nothing in this world perpetual: next to teach us not to be grieved, if we have not all things at once according to our desires, neither enjoy them so long as we would wish.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Ecclesiastes 3:1: Ecc 3:1 “Everything has its time, and every purpose under the heavens its hour.” The Germ. language is poor in synonyms of time. Zöckler translates: Everything has its Frist ..., but by Frist we think only of a fixed term of duration, not of a period of beginning, which, though not exclusively, is yet here primarily meant; we have therefore adopted Luther’s excellent translation. Certainly זמן (from זמן, cogn.