23 Sep 2017Song of Songs 1–3 1 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine. 3 Your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is oil poured out; therefore the virgins love you. 4 Draw me after you, let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will remember your love
22 Sep 2017Ecclesiastes 10–12 1 A dead fly causes a stench in mixed anointing oil, so a little folly is more weighty than wisdom and honor. 2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. 3 Even when a fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he shows everyone that he is a fool. 4 If the anger of a ruler rises against you, do
21 Sep 2017Ecclesiastes 7–9 1 A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth. 2 It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind; and the living will lay it to heart. 3 Grief is better than laughter, for with a downcast face the heart considers the good. 4 The heart
20 Sep 2017Ecclesiastes 4–6 1 Again I saw all types of oppression that are done under the sun: Look! The tears of the oppressed, and no one was there to comfort them. And there was force from the hand of the oppressors, and no one was there to comfort them. 2 And I thought that fortunate were the dead who had already died, even more than the living who were still alive. 3 And still better than
19 Sep 2017Ecclesiastes 1–3 1 These are the words of the Preacher, the son of David and king in Jerusalem. 2 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” 3 What benefit is there to a man in all his labors that he toils under the sun? 4 A generation comes, and a generation goes, but the earth continually remains. 5 The sun comes up, and the sun goes down, and hurries to
18 Sep 2017Proverbs 30–31 1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle. The man declares to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ukal: 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. 4 Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in a
17 Sep 2017Proverbs 27–29 1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. 2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. 3 A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both. 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous, but who is able to stand before envy? 5 Open rebuke is