Pre Game Proverb

Ecc 5:6  Don't let your mouth make you sin. And don't defend yourself by telling the Temple messenger that the promise you made was a mistake. That would make God angry, and he might wipe out everything you have achieved.Ecc 5:7  Talk is cheap, like daydreams and other useless activities. Fear God instead.

Ecc 5:4  When you make a promise to God, don't delay in following through, for God takes no pleasure in fools. Keep all the promises you make to him.Ecc 5:5  It is better to say nothing than to make a promise and not keep it.

Ecc 5:3  Too much activity gives you restless dreams; too many words make you a fool.

Ecc 5:1  As you enter the house of God, keep your ears open and your mouth shut. It is evil to make mindless offerings to God.Ecc 5:2  Don't make rash promises, and don't be hasty in bringing matters before God. After all, God is in heaven, and you are here on earth. So let your words be few.

Ecc 4:13  It is better to be a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king who refuses all advice.Ecc 4:14  Such a youth could rise from poverty and succeed. He might even become king, though he has been in prison.Ecc 4:15  But then everyone rushes to the side of yet another youth who replaces him.Ecc 4:16  Endless crowds stand around him, but then another generation grows up and rejects him, too. So it is all meaningless—like chasing the wind.

Ecc 4:9  Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.Ecc 4:10  For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!Ecc 4:11  Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?Ecc 4:12  And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Ecc 4:7  Again, I saw vanity under the sun:Ecc 4:8  one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Ecc 4:5  The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.Ecc 4:6  Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

Ecc 4:4  Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecc 4:1  Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.Ecc 4:2  And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.Ecc 4:3  But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Ecc 3:21  Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?Ecc 3:22  So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Ecc 3:18  I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.Ecc 3:19  For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.Ecc 3:20  All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

Ecc 3:17  I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.

Ecc 3:16  Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

Ecc 3:15  That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

Ecc 5:17  Throughout their lives, they live under a cloud—frustrated, discouraged, and angry. 

Ecc 3:15  That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

Ecc 5:15  We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can't take our riches with us.Ecc 5:16  And this, too, is a very serious problem. People leave this world no better off than when they came. All their hard work is for nothing—like working for the wind.

Ecc 3:14  I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.

Ecc 5:12  People who work hard sleep well, whether they eat little or much. But the rich seldom get a good night's sleep. 

Ecc 3:13  also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.

 Ecc 5:11  The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what good is wealth—except perhaps to watch it slip through your fingers!

Ecc 3:12  I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;

Ecc 5:8  Don't be surprised if you see a poor person being oppressed by the powerful and if justice is being miscarried throughout the land. For every official is under orders from higher up, and matters of justice get lost in red tape and bureaucracy.

Ecc 3:11  He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

The God-Given TaskEcc 3:9  What gain has the worker from his toil?Ecc 3:10  I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

Ecc 3:8  a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecc 3:7  a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Ecc 3:6  a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Ecc 3:5  a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Proverbs 10:7  -- The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. 

Proverbs 9:17 -- Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. 

Proverbs 8:19 -- My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

Proverbs 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. 

Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Ecc 3:3  a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Ecc 3:1  For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:Ecc 3:2  a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

Ecc 2:22  What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?Ecc 2:23  For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.Ecc 2:24  There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,Ecc 2:25  for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?Ecc 2:26  For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecc 2:21  because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Ecc 2:18  I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me,

Ecc 2:18  I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me,

Ecc 2:12  So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.Ecc 2:13  Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness.Ecc 2:14  The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.

Ecc 2:10  And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.Ecc 2:11  Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecc 2:18  I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me,

Ecc 2:9  So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.

Ecc 2:3  I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

Ecc 2:1  I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity.Ecc 2:2  I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”

Ecc 1:14  I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.Ecc 1:15  What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Ecc 1:12  I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.Ecc 1:13  And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

Ecc 1:9  What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.Ecc 1:10  Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us.Ecc 1:11  There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.

Ecc 1:8  All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.Ecc 1:9  What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.