Pre Game Proverb

Ecc 7:4  The mind of the wise is in the house of mourning, While the mind of fools is in the house of pleasure. 

Ecc 7:3  Sorrow is better than laughter, for sadness has a refining influence on us. 

Ecc 7:2  It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.

Ecc 7:1  A good reputation is more valuable than costly perfume. And the day you die is better than the day you are born. 

Ecc 6:11  For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a man?

Ecc 6:12  For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun

Ecc 6:10  Everything has already been decided. It was known long ago what each person would be. So there’s no use arguing with God about your destiny. 

Ecc 6:9 Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don’t have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless—like chasing the wind.

Ecc 6:8 So are wise people really better off than fools? Do poor people gain anything by being wise and knowing how to act in front of others?

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.