H3588A–כִּי–ki

Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

כִּ֣י ki “for”

It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also from that don't withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will come forth from them all.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

Don't be hasty to go out of his presence. Don't persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

כִּ֛י ki “for”

For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּ֚י ki “that”

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

כִּ֣י ki “for”

then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

כִּי֩ ki “that”

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

כִּי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

כִּ֧י ki “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

כִּ֣י ki “that”כִּי־ ki- “for”

For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

כִּ֡י ki “for”

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don't leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Don't curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; And don't curse the rich in your bedchamber: For a bird of the sky may carry your voice, And that which has wings may tell the matter.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Cast your bread on the waters; For you shall find it after many days.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; For you don't know what evil will be on the earth.

כִּ֚י ki “for”