Ecclesiastes 3:8

Wycliffe Bible

Tyme of loue, and tyme of hatrede; tyme of batel, and tyme of pees.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
a time to love and a time to hate;a time for war and a time for peace.

Hebrew Names Version
A time to love, And a time to hate; A time for war, And a time for shalom.

King James Version
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

English Standard Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

New American Standard Bible
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.

New Century Version
There is a time to love and a time to hate. There is a time for war and a time for peace.

Amplified Bible
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.

World English Bible
A time to love, And a time to hate; A time for war, And a time for peace.

Geneva Bible (1587)
A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.

Legacy Standard Bible
A time to love and a time to hate;A time for war and a time for peace.

Berean Standard Bible
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

Contemporary English Version
There is also a time for love and hate, for war and peace.

Complete Jewish Bible
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

Darby Translation
A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace.

Easy-to-Read Version
There is a time to love and a time to hate. There is a time for war and a time for peace.

George Lamsa Translation
A time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

Good News Translation
He sets the time for love and the time for hate, the time for war and the time for peace.

Lexham English Bible
a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

Literal Translation
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A tyme to loue, & a tyme to hate: A tyme of warre, and a tyme of peace.

American Standard Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Bible in Basic English
A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
A time to love, and a time to hate; {S}{S}{N}

King James Version (1611)
A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
A tyme to loue, and a tyme to hate: A tyme of warre, and a tyme of peace.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

English Revised Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Update Bible Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Webster's Bible Translation
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

New English Translation
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

New King James Version
A time to love, And a time to hate; A time of war, And a time of peace.

New Living Translation
A time to love and a time to hate. A time for war and a time for peace.

New Life Bible
There is a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

New Revised Standard
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A time to love and a time to hate, - A time of war, and a time of peace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.

Revised Standard Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Young's Literal Translation
A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.

Contextual Overview

¹ Alle thingis han tyme, and alle thingis vndur sunne passen bi her spaces. ² Tyme of birthe, and time of diyng; tyme to plaunte, and tyme to drawe vp that that is plauntid. ³ Tyme to sle, and tyme to make hool; tyme to distrie, and tyme to bilde. ⁴ Tyme to wepe, and tyme to leiye; tyme to biweile, and tyme to daunse. ⁵ Tyme to scatere stoonys, and tyme to gadere togidere; tyme to colle, and tyme to be fer fro collyngis. ⁶ Tyme to wynne, and tyme to leese; tyme to kepe, and tyme to caste awei. ⁷ Tyme to kitte, and tyme to sewe togidere; tyme to be stille, and tyme to speke. ⁸ Tyme of loue, and tyme of hatrede; tyme of batel, and tyme of pees. ⁹ What hath a man more of his trauel? ¹⁰ I siy the turment, which God yaf to the sones of men, that thei be occupied therynne.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

time to love: Ezekiel 16:8, Psalms 139:21, Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 5:25, Ephesians 5:28, Ephesians 5:29, Titus 2:4

a time to hate: 2 Chronicles 19:2, Luke 14:26, Revelation 2:2

a time of war: Genesis 14:14-17, Joshua 8:1-29, Joshua 11:23, 2 Samuel 10:6-19, 1 Kings 5:4, 2 Chronicles 20:1-29, 2 Chronicles 20:30

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 11:1 - after the year

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
But and the serpent was feller than alle lyuynge beestis of erthe, whiche the Lord God hadde maad. Which serpent seide to the womman, Why comaundide God to you, that ye schulden not ete of ech tre of paradis?

Genesis 3:2
To whom the womman answerde, We eten of the fruyt of trees that ben in paradis;

Genesis 3:3
sothely God commaundide to vs, that we schulden not eate of the fruyt of the tre, which is in the myddis of paradijs, and that we schulden not touche it, lest perauenture we dien.

Genesis 3:9
And the Lord God clepide Adam, and seide to hym, Where art thou?

Genesis 3:10
And Adam seide, Y herde thi vois in paradijs, and Y drede, for Y was nakid, and Y hidde me.

Genesis 3:12
And Adam seide, The womman which thou yauest felowe to me, yaf me of the tre, and Y eet.

Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made cootis of skynnys to Adam and Eue his wijf, and clothide hem; and seide, Lo!

Genesis 3:22
Adam is maad as oon of vs, and knowith good and yuel; now therfore se ye, lest perauenture he putte his hond, and take of the tre of lijf, and ete, and lyue with outen ende.

Deuteronomy 4:33
that a puple herde the vois of God spekynge fro the myddis of the fier, as thou herdist, and siest;

Deuteronomy 5:25
Whi therfor schulen we die, and schal this gretteste fier deuoure vs? For if we heren more the vois of oure Lord God, we schulen die.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A time to love, and a time to hate,.... For one to love his friend, and to hate a man, a sinner, as the Targum; to love a friend while he continues such, and hate him, or less love him, when he proves treacherous and unfaithful; an instance of a change of love into hatred may be seen in the case of Amnon, 2 Samuel 13:15. A time of unregeneracy is a time of loving worldly lusts and sinful pleasures, the company of wicked men, and all carnal delights and recreations; and a time of conversion is a time to hate what was before loved, sin, and the conversion of sinners, the garment spotted with the flesh, the principles and practices, though not the persons, of ungodly men; and even to hate, that is, less love, the dearest friends and relations, in comparison of, or when in competition with, Christ;

a time of war, and a time of peace; for nations to be engaged in war with each other, or to be at peace, which are continually revolving; and there is a time when there will be no more war. In a spiritual sense, the present time, or state of things, is a time of war; the Christian's life is a warfare state, though it will be soon accomplished, in which he is engaging in fighting with spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, and the world: the time to come, or future state, is a time of peace, when saints shall enter into peace, and be no more disturbed by enemies from within or from without. In the Midrash, all the above times and seasons are interpreted of Israel, and applied to them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 3:8. A time to love, - hate, - of war, - of peace. —

"Love turns to hatred; interest or caprice

Dissolves the firmest knot by friendship tied.

O'er rival nations, with revenge inflamed,

Or lust of power, fell Discord shakes awhile

Her baleful torch: now smiling Peace returns.

The above paraphrase on the verses cited contains a general view of the principal occurrences of time, in reference to the human being, from his cradle to his grave, through all the operations of life.