If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.

I will give you praise with all my heart: I will make melody to you before the gods.

I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.

Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:

Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:

Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;

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.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

The knees of the evil are bent before the good; and sinners go down in the dust at the doors of the upright.

Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!

The fear of the Lord is the teaching of wisdom; and a low opinion of oneself goes before honour.

Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.

Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

To give an answer before hearing is a foolish thing and a cause of shame.

A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come 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.

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:

Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.

When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;

Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.

Do not take glory for yourself before the king, and do not put yourself in the place of the great:

For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.

Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.

Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.

Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?

I have made request to you for two things; do not keep them from me before my death:

Is there anything of which men say, See, this is new? It has been in the old time which was before us.

There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.

I said to my heart, See, I have become great and am increased in wisdom more than any who were before me in Jerusalem--yes, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.

I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still 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.

I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in 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.

Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.

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.

Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.

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.

What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely 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 evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?

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 does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.

But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

If a snake gives a bite before the word of power is said, then there is no longer any use in the word of power.

Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole;

Before I was conscious of it, ...

My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.

Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?

Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.

And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

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.

For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.

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 is able to say, Father, or, Mother, the wealth of Damascus and the goods of Samaria will be taken away by the king of Assyria.

You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.

The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.

For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

And the land of Judah will become a cause of great fear to Egypt; whenever its name comes to mind, Egypt will be in fear before the Lord of armies because of his purpose against it.

A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.

And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.

Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.

As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.

And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.

And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.

Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.

A thousand will go in fear before one; even before five you will go in flight: till you are like a pillar by itself on the top of a mountain, and like a flag on a hill.

The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?

And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar?

And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord,

Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.

See, the Lord God will come as a strong one, ruling in power: see, those made free by him are with him, and those whom he has made safe go before him.

All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.

Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.

You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.