Pre-Game Proverb with John Rayner

Pro 17:1   Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it Than a house full of feasting with strife.

Pro 17:4   Wrongdoers eagerly listen to gossip; liars pay close attention to slander. 

Ecc 11:1   Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.

Ecc 10:19   A party gives laughter, wine gives happiness, and money gives everything!

Ecc 10:18   Through indolence the rafters sag, and through slackness the house leaks.

Ecc 10:16   What sorrow for the land ruled by a servant, the land whose leaders feast in the morning. Ecc 10:17   Happy is the land whose king is a noble leader and whose leaders feast at the proper time to gain strength for their work, not to get drunk.

Ecc 10:15   The toil of a fool so wearies him that he does not even know how to go to a city.

Ecc 10:13   The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is evil madness. Ecc 10:14   A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?

Ecc 10:12   The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.

Ecc 10:11   If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage to the charmer.

Ecc 10:8   He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.

Ecc 10:5   There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler: Ecc 10:6   folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place. Ecc 10:7   I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves.

Ecc 10:4   If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.

Ecc 10:3   Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

Ecc 10:2   A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left.

Ecc 10:1   Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Ecc 10:1  Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Ecc 9:18  Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Ecc 9:17 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.

Ecc 9:16  But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.

Ecc 9:13  I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me. Ecc 9:14  There was a little city with few men in it, and a great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it. Ecc 9:15  But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Ecc 9:12  People can never predict when hard times might come. Like fish in a net or birds in a trap, people are caught by sudden tragedy.

Ecc 9:11  I have observed something else under the sun. The fastest runner doesn’t always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn’t always win the battle. The wise sometimes go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don’t always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being in the right place at the right time.

Ecc 9:2  The same destiny ultimately awaits everyone, whether righteous or wicked, good or bad, ceremonially clean or unclean, religious or irreligious. Good people receive the same treatment as sinners, and people who make promises to God are treated like people who don’t. Ecc 9:3  It seems so wrong that everyone under the sun suffers the same fate. Already twisted by evil, people choose their ow...

Ecc 9:1  For I have taken all this to my heart and explain it that righteous men, wise men, and their deeds are in the hand of God. Man does not know whether it will be love or hatred; anything awaits him.