Pre Game Proverb

Ecc 2:6  I made ponds of water for myself from which to irrigate a forest of growing trees.

Ecc 2:7  I bought male and female slaves and I had homeborn slaves. Also I possessed flocks and herds larger than all who preceded me in Jerusalem.

Ecc 2:4  I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself;

Ecc 2:5  I made gardens and parks for myself and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees

Ecc 2:3  After much thought, I decided to cheer myself with wine. And while still seeking wisdom, I clutched at foolishness. In this way, I tried to experience the only happiness most people find during their brief life in this world.

Ecc 2:1  I said to myself, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself." And behold, it too was futility.

Ecc 2:2  I said of laughter, "It is madness," and of pleasure, "What does it accomplish?"

Ecc 1:16  I said to myself, "Behold, I have magnified and increased wisdom more than all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge."

Ecc 1:17  And I set my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I realized that this also is striving after wind.

Ecc 1:18  Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.

Ecc 1:14  I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless—like chasing the wind.

Ecc 1:15  What is wrong cannot be made right. What is missing cannot be recovered.

Ecc 1:12  I, the Teacher, was king of Israel, and I lived in Jerusalem.
Ecc 1:13  I devoted myself to search for understanding and to explore by wisdom everything being done under heaven. I soon discovered that God has dealt a tragic existence to the human race.

Ecc 1:9  That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecc 1:10  Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new"? Already it has existed for ages Which were before us.

Ecc 1:11  There is no remembrance of earlier things; And also of the later things which will occur, There will be for them no remembrance Among those who will come later still.

Ecc 1:8  All things are wearisome; Man is not able to tell it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor is the ear filled with hearing.

Ecc 1:9  That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecc 1:6  Blowing toward the south, Then turning toward the north, The wind continues swirling along; And on its circular courses the wind returns.

Ecc 1:7  All the rivers flow into the sea, Yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, There they flow again.