H3588A–כִּי–ki

Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

For wisdom `is' a defense, money `is' a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom `is', She reviveth her possessors.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

כִּ֣י ki “for”

`It is' good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

Be not troubled at his presence, thou mayest go, stand not in an evil thing, for all that he pleaseth he doth.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּ֚י ki “that”

Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred `times', and prolonging `himself' for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

כִּ֣י ki “for”

then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

כִּי֩ ki “that”

But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

But `to' him who is joined unto all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it `is' better than to the dead lion.

כִּי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

כִּ֧י ki “for”כִּ֥י ki “for”

Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it `is' thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift `is' the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

כִּ֣י ki “that”כִּי־ ki- “for”

For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these `are' the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

כִּ֡י ki “for”

If the spirit of the ruler go up against thee, Thy place leave not, For yielding quieteth great sinners.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Even in thy mind a king revile not, And in the inner parts of thy bed-chamber Revile not the rich: For a fowl of the heavens causeth the voice to go, And a possessor of wings declareth the word.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Give a portion to seven, and even to eight, For thou knowest not what evil is on the earth.

כִּ֚י ki “for”