Pre Game Proverb

Ecc 4:1  Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.

Ecc 4:2  So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living.

Ecc 4:3  But better off than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.

Ecc 3:21  Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth?

Ecc 3:22  And I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his activities, for that is his lot. For who will bring him to see what will occur after him?

Ecc 3:18  I said to myself concerning the sons of men, "God has surely tested them in order for them to see that they are but beasts."

Ecc 3:19  For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity.

Ecc 3:20  All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

Ecc 3:17  I said to myself, "God will judge both the righteous man and the wicked man," for a time for every matter and for every deed is there.

Ecc 3:16  Furthermore, I have seen under the sun that in the place of justice there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

Ecc 3:14  I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him.

Ecc 3:12  I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one's lifetime;

Ecc 3:11  He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Ecc 3:9  What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?

Ecc 3:10  I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.

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