Pre Game Proverb

Ecc 6:7  All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied. 

Ecc 6:3  If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, "Better the miscarriage than he,

Ecc 6:4  for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.

Ecc 6:5  "It never sees the sun and it never knows anything; it is better off than he.

Ecc 6:6  "Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice and does not enjoy good things—do not all go to one place?"

Ecc 6:1  There is another serious tragedy I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily on humanity.

Ecc 6:2  God gives some people great wealth and honor and everything they could ever want, but then he doesn’t give them the chance to enjoy these things. They die, and someone else, even a stranger, ends up enjoying their wealth! This is meaningless—a sickening tragedy.

Ecc 5:20  God keeps such people so busy enjoying life that they take no time to brood over the past.

Ecc 5:19  And it is a good thing to receive wealth from God and the good health to enjoy it. To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life—this is indeed a gift from God.

Ecc 5:18  Even so, I have noticed one thing, at least, that is good. It is good for people to eat, drink, and enjoy their work under the sun during the short life God has given them, and to accept their lot in life.

Ecc 5:17  Throughout his life he also eats in darkness with great vexation, sickness and anger.

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 5:13  There is another serious problem I have seen under the sun. Hoarding riches harms the saver.

Ecc 5:14  Money is put into risky investments that turn sour, and everything is lost. In the end, there is nothing left to pass on to one’s children.

Ecc 5:12  The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, Whether he eats little or much; But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.