Pre-Game Proverb with John Rayner

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.

Ecc 3:7   A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to be silent and a time to speak.

Ecc 3:5   A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.

Ecc 3:4   A time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance.

Ecc 3:3   A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up.

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   For what does a man get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun? Ecc 2:23   Because all his days his task is painful and grievous; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity. Ecc 2:24   There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God. Ecc 2...

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 inthe 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 2:13   And I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. Ecc 2:14   The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that one fate befalls them both.

Ecc 2:11   Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun. Ecc 2:12   So I turned to consider wisdom, madness and folly; for what will the man do who will come after the king except what has already been done?

Ecc 2:9   Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also stood by me.

Ecc 2:3   I explored with my mind how to stimulate my body with wine while my mind was guiding me wisely, and how to take hold of folly, until I could see what good there is for the sons of men to do under heaven the few years of their lives.

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

Ecc 1:14   I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and striving after wind. Ecc 1:15   What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Ecc 1:12   I, the Preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. Ecc 1:13   And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

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 th...

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.

Ecc 1:4   A generation goes and a generation comes, But the earth remains forever.