I am on the verge of complete ruin
before the entire community.”

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

Beside gates, before towns, [at the] entrance of doors, she cries out:

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

before He made the land, the fields,
or the first soil on earth.

Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.

Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.

There is a way -- right before a man, And its latter end are ways of death.

An unthinking person believes everything, but the prudent one thinks before acting.

The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

The mind of the righteous person thinks before answering,
but the mouth of the wicked blurts out evil things.

The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

There is a way right before a man, And its latter end -- ways of death.

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

A man lacking heart is striking hands, A surety he becometh before his friend.

Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

The man who first puts his cause before the judge seems to be in the right; but then his neighbour comes and puts his cause in its true light.

Many will seek favor before the generous, and everyone [is] the friend of a man of gifts.

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

Honour not thyself before a king, And in the place of the great stand not.

For better that he hath said to thee, 'Come thou up hither,' Than that he humble thee before a noble, Whom thine eyes have seen.

Do not rush out to argue your case [before magistrates or judges];
Otherwise what will you do in the end [when your case is lost and]
When your neighbor (opponent) humiliates you?

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:

Do not slander or malign a servant before his master [stay out of another’s personal life],
Or he will curse you [for your interference], and you will be found guilty.

The lion, which is mighty among beasts
And does not turn back before any;

She considers a field before she buys or accepts it [expanding her business prudently];
With her profits she plants fruitful vines in her vineyard.

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

There is no remembrance of those who came before;
and of those who will come after
there will also be no remembrance
by those who follow them.

I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.

For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.

Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.

And, though an enemy should prevail against one, two, might make a stand before him, - and, a threefold cord, cannot soon be broken.

There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. {So its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent}.

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

All these things have I proved because of wisdom: For I thought to be wise, but she went farther from me than she was before;

And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Obey the king's command, because you took an oath before God to be loyal to him.

Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

There is an evil I saw under the sun as an error going forth from before him having power:

If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

Swear to me, young women of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, that you won't awaken or arouse love before its proper time!

Before the day breaks
and the shadows flee,
turn to me, my love, and be like a gazelle
or a young stag on the divided mountains.

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Swear to me, young women of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, that you won't awaken or arouse love before its proper time!

Before the day breaks
and the shadows flee,
I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh
and the hill of frankincense.

Turn round thine eyes from before me, Because they have made me proud. Thy hair is as a row of the goats, That have shone from Gilead,

Before I was aware, my soul set me Among the chariots of my princely people.

(The Chorus)
“Return, return, O Shulammite;
Return, return, that we may gaze at you.”

Swear to me, young women of Jerusalem, that you won't awaken or arouse love before its proper time!

My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

Your land is a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.

So the common man has been humbled [before idols]
And the man of importance has been degraded,
Therefore do not forgive them [O Lord].

Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.

And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

Therefore, are my people taken away captive before they know it, - And their honourable mean are famished with hunger, And, their multitude, do gape for thirst.

Woe to the wise in their own eyes, And -- before their own faces -- intelligent!

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria hath settled down upon Ephraim. Then shook his heart, and the heart of his people, as the trees of a forest shake before a wind.

and thou shalt say unto him, Take heed and be quiet; fear not, and let not thy heart faint before these two ends of smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.

And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

The LORD of the Heavenly Armies he's the one you are to regard as holy. Let him be the one whom you fear, and let him be the one before whom you stand in terror!

Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.