Pre Game Proverb

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.