Study Desk

Don't let your own words lead you into sin, so that you have to tell God's priest that you didn't mean it. Why make God angry with you? Why let him destroy what you have worked for?

Workers may or may not have enough to eat, but at least they can get a good night's sleep. The rich, however, have so much that they stay awake worrying.

more so than the man who never enjoys life, though he may live two thousand years. After all, both of them are going to the same place.

Never ask, "Oh, why were things so much better in the old days?" It's not an intelligent question.

So don't be too good or too wise—why kill yourself

The king can do anything he likes, so depart from his presence; don't stay in such a dangerous place.

There is a right time and a right way to do everything, but we know so little!

Why do people commit crimes so readily? Because crime is not punished quickly enough.

So I am convinced that we should enjoy ourselves, because the only pleasure we have in this life is eating and drinking and enjoying ourselves. We can at least do this as we labor during the life that God has given us in this world.

Someone lived there who was poor, but so clever that he could have saved the town. But no one thought about him.

So remember your Creator while you are still young, before those dismal days and years come when you will say, "I don't enjoy life."

The Woman Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my dearest compared to other men. I love to sit in its shadow, and its fruit is sweet to my taste.

The Women Most beautiful of women, is your lover different from everyone else? What is there so wonderful about him that we should give you our promise?

Most beautiful of women, where has your lover gone? Tell us which way your lover went, so that we can help you find him.

So now, listen to what the Lord Almighty, Israel's powerful God, is saying: "I will take revenge on you, my enemies, and you will cause me no more trouble.

Just as straw is set on fire by a spark, so powerful people will be destroyed by their own evil deeds, and no one will be able to stop the destruction.

A time will come when the members of a clan will choose one of their number and say to him, "You at least have something to wear, so be our leader in this time of trouble."

Moneylenders oppress my people, and their creditors cheat them. My people, your leaders are misleading you, so that you do not know which way to turn.

A day is coming when the Lord will take away from the women of Jerusalem everything they are so proud of—the ornaments they wear on their ankles, on their heads, on their necks,

When that time comes, seven women will grab hold of one man and say, "We can feed and clothe ourselves, but please let us say you are our husband, so that we won't have to endure the shame of being unmarried."