Albert Barnes Commentary Ecclesiastes 3:1

"For everything there is a season, and a time for very purpose under heaven:" — Ecclesiastes 3:1 (ASV)

Everything - More particularly, the actions of people (for example, his own, Ecclesiastes 2:1–8) and events which happen to people, the world of Providence rather than the world of creation. It would seem that most of his own works described in Ecclesiastes 2:1-8 were present to his mind. The rare word translated “season” means emphatically “fitting time” (Esther 9:27, Esther 9:31).