Study Desk

Discipline your child while there is hope, but don't get so angry that you kill him!

Listen to advice, and accept discipline, so that in the end you will be wise.

A lazy person won't plow in winter; so at harvest-time, when he looks, there is nothing.

After consultation, plans succeed; so take wise advice when waging war.

A gossip goes around revealing secrets, so don't get involved with a talkative person.

A man's steps are ordered by Adonai , so how can a person understand his own ways?

so you will know that these sayings are certainly true and bring back true sayings to him who sent you.

So let your father and mother be glad; let her who gave you birth rejoice.

so don't visit your neighbor too much, or he may get his fill of you and come to hate you.

Like snow in summer or rain at harvest-time, so honor for a fool is out of place.

but answer a fool as his folly deserves, so that he won't think he is wise.

My son, become wise, and gladden my heart, so that I can answer my critics.

Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another.

For as pressing milk produces butter and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing out anger produces strife.

So I grew great, surpassing all who preceded me in Yerushalayim; my wisdom, too, stayed with me.

So I decided to look more carefully at wisdom, stupidity and foolishness; for what can the man who succeeds the king do, except what has already been done?

So I said to myself, "If the same thing happens to the fool as to me, then what did I gain by being wise?" and I thought to myself, "This too is pointless.

So I came to hate life, because the activities done under the sun were loathesome to me, since everything is meaningless and feeding on wind.

So there is nothing better for a man to do than eat, drink and and let himself enjoy the good that results from his work. I also realized that this is from God's hand.

I know that whatever God does will last forever; there is nothing to add or subtract from it; and God has done it so that people will fear him.