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 ponders all his paths.

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, like a master workman: 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 which seems straight before a man, but its end is the 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.

Sheol 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 honor is humility.

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

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

The beginning of strife is like releasing water: therefore leave off contention, before a quarrel starts.

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

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

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

He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame unto him.

A man's gift makes room for him, and brings 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:

See you a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:

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

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 muddied fountain, and a polluted spring.

Though his hatred cover itself with guile, His wickedness shall be openly showed before the assembly.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

Two things have I asked 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.

a lion, which is mightiest among beasts
and doesn’t retreat before anything,

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 a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were 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 communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;

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 gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind.

I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God hath done 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 him shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and grasping after the wind.

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything 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 is was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy 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 advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how 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 overmuch 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 a hundred times, and prolong his days , yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that 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 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 be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all 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 upon the chariots of my willing people.

Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon you. Why will you look upon the Shulamite? As upon a dance before two armies?.

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: The thousand silver-pieces be to thee, Solomon; And to the keepers of its fruit, 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.

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this from 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 rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.

There kneeleth the man, there falleth the man down before them; but thou, O LORD, wilt not leave them unpunished.

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.

It was reported to the family of David, "Syria has allied with Ephraim." They and their people were emotionally shaken, just as the trees of the forest shake before the 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 whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.

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 carried 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, thou hast increased their joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, 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.