Proverbs
May 1999
May 31, 1999 = = Eccl 2:1
I said, even I, in my heart: ``Do come now, let me try you out with rejoicing. Also, see good.'' And, look! that too was vanity.
May 30, 1999 = = Eccl 1:18
For in the abundance of wisdom there is an abundance of vexation, so that he that increases knowledge increases pain.
May 29, 1999 = = Eccl 1:17
And I proceeded to give my heart to knowing wisdom and to knowing madness, and I have come to know folly, that this too is a striving after wind.
May 28, 1999 = = Eccl 1:16
I, even I, spoke with my heart, saying: ``Look! I myself have greatly increased in wisdom more than anyone that happened to be before me in Jerusalem, and my own heart saw a great deal of wisdom and knowledge.''
May 27, 1999 = = Eccl 1:15
That which is made crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot possibly be counted.
May 26, 1999 = = Eccl 1:14
I saw all the works that were done under the sun, and, look! everything was vanity and a striving after wind.
May 25, 1999 = = Eccl 1:13
And I set my heart to seek and explore wisdom in relation to everything that has been done under the heavens--the calamitous occupation that God has given to the sons of mankind in which to be occupied.
May 24, 1999 = = Eccl 1:12
I, the congregator, happened to be king over Israel in Jerusalem.
May 23, 1999 = = Eccl 1:11
There is no remembrance of people of former times, nor will there be of those also who will come to be later. There will prove to be no remembrance even of them among those who will come to be still later on.
May 22, 1999 = = Eccl 1:10
Does anything exist of which one may say: ``See this; it is new''? It has already had existence for time indefinite; what has come into existence is from time prior to us.
May 21, 1999 = = Eccl 1:9
That which has come to be, that is what will come to be; and that which has been done, that is what will be done; and so there is nothing new under the sun.
May 20, 1999 = = Eccl 1:8
All things are wearisome; no one is able to speak of it. The eye is not satisfied at seeing, neither is the ear filled from hearing.
May 19, 1999 = = Eccl 1:7
All the winter torrents are going forth to the sea, yet the sea itself is not full. To the place where the winter torrents are going forth, there they are returning so as to go forth.
May 18, 1999 = = Eccl 1:6
The wind is going to the south, and it is circling around to the north. Round and round it is continually circling, and right back to its circlings the wind is returning.
May 17, 1999 = = Eccl 1:5
And the sun also has flashed forth, and the sun has set, and it is coming panting to its place where it is going to flash forth.
May 16, 1999 = = Eccl 1:4
A generation is going, and a generation is coming; but the earth is standing even to time indefinite.
May 15, 1999 = = Eccl 1:3
What profit does a man have in all his hard work at which he works hard under the sun?
May 14, 1999 = = Eccl 1:2
``The greatest vanity!'' the congregator has said, ``the greatest vanity! Everything is vanity!''
May 13, 1999 = = Prov 8:36
``But the one missing me is doing violence to his soul; all those intensely hating me are the ones that do love death.''
May 12, 1999 = = Prov 8:35
``For the one finding me will certainly find life, and gets goodwill from Jehovah.''
May 11, 1999 = = Prov 8:34
``Happy is the man that is listening to me by keeping awake at my doors day by day, by watching at the posts of my entrances.''
May 10, 1999 = = Prov 8:33
``Listen to discipline and become wise, and do not show any neglect.''
May 09, 1999 = = Prov 8:32
``And now, O sons, listen to me; yes, happy are the ones that keep my very ways.''
May 08, 1999 = = Prov 8:29,30,31
When he decreed the foundations of the earth I came to be beside him as a master worker, being glad at the productive land of his earth, and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men.
May 07, 1999 = = Prov 8:26,30
When as yet he had not made the earth and the open spaces and the first part of the dust masses of the productive land, then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time.
May 06, 1999 = = Prov 8:27,29
I was there when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth.
May 05, 1999 = = Prov 8:27,28
I was there when he made firm the cloud masses above, when he caused the fountains of the watery deep to be strong.
May 04, 1999 = = Prov 8:27
I was there when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep.
May 03, 1999 = = Prov 8:27
When he prepared the heavens I was there.
May 02, 1999 = = Prov 8:26
I was brought forth when as yet he had not made the earth and the open spaces and the first part of the dust masses of the productive land.
May 01, 1999 = = Prov 8:25
Before the mountains themselves had been settled down, ahead of the hills, I was brought forth as with labor pains.