Pre Game Proverb

Ecc 3:1  There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—

Ecc 3:2  A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.

Ecc 2:22  So what do people get in this life for all their hard work and anxiety?

Ecc 2:23  Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night their minds cannot rest. It is all meaningless.

Ecc 2:24  So I decided there is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink and to find satisfaction in work. Then I realized that these pleasures are from the hand of God.

Ecc 2:25  For who can eat or enjoy anything apart from him?

Ecc 2:26  God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to those who please him. But if a sinner becomes wealthy, God takes the wealth away and gives it to those who please him. This, too, is meaningless—like chasing the wind.

Ecc 2:21  When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge and skill, then he gives his legacy to one who has not labored with them. This too is vanity and a great evil.

Ecc 2:19  And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored by acting wisely under the sun. This too is vanity.

Ecc 2:18  Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

Ecc 2:16  For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man as with the fool, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how the wise man and the fool alike die!

Ecc 2:17  So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

Ecc 2:12  So I decided to compare wisdom with foolishness and madness (for who can do this better than I, the king?).

Ecc 2:13  I thought, “Wisdom is better than foolishness, just as light is better than darkness.

Ecc 2:14  For the wise can see where they are going, but fools walk in the dark.” Yet I saw that the wise and the foolish share the same fate.

Ecc 2:10  Anything I wanted, I would take. I denied myself no pleasure. I even found great pleasure in hard work, a reward for all my labors.

Ecc 2:11  But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.

Ecc 2:9  So I became greater than all who had lived in Jerusalem before me, and my wisdom never failed me.

Ecc 2:8  Also, I collected for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I provided for myself male and female singers and the pleasures of men—many concubines.