TBESH · H9005
/ל · l · to/for
Prefix lamed: to
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/ל (l) means “to/for” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: l STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/ל · l · to/for
Prefix lamed: to
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Page 183 of 241. 12010 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
Read word by wordDo not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
Read word by wordDo not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
Read word by wordWisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers in a city.
Read word by wordDo not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.
Read word by wordI directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
Read word by wordAnd I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
Read word by word“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
Read word by wordOnly this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
Read word by wordFor the king’s word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
Read word by wordFor there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
Read word by wordSince no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
Read word by wordAs no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Read word by wordAll this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.
Read word by wordWhen the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
Read word by wordAlthough a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.
Read word by wordYet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
Read word by wordSo I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
Read word by wordWhen I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—
Read word by wordI saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
Read word by wordSo I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
Read word by wordIt is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
Read word by wordThis is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
Read word by wordThere is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
Read word by wordFor the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
Read word by wordTheir love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.
Read word by wordEnjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.
Read word by wordWhatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
Read word by wordI saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
Read word by wordFor surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
Read word by wordA wise man’s heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.
Read word by wordEven as the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he shows everyone that he is a fool.
Read word by wordThere is an evil I have seen under the sun—an error that proceeds from the ruler:
Read word by wordIf the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
Read word by wordYet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
Read word by wordThe toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
Read word by wordWoe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
Read word by wordA feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
Read word by wordDivide your portion among seven, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may befall the land.
Read word by wordSow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
Read word by wordLight is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.
Read word by wordRemember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
Read word by wordwhen the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,
Read word by wordThe Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.
Read word by wordThis is Solomon’s Song of Songs.
Read word by wordThe fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.
Read word by wordDo not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.
Read word by wordTell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
Read word by wordIf you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.
Read word by wordI compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
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