'May' in the Bible

So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.

So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full.

A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.

A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.

Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, by which one may be turned from the nets of death.

A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.

A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.

A thing may be put to the decision of chance, but it comes about through the Lord.

The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?

There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.

Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.

A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.

A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?

So that your faith may be in the Lord, I have made them clear to you this day, even to you.

To make you see how certain are true words, so that you may give a true answer to those who put questions to you?

For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.

The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.

Or your hearer may say evil of you, and your shame will not be turned away.

If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.

For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings' houses.

For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.

All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.

That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.

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.

Who may take food or have pleasure without him?

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.

I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself?

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.

As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?

Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

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 the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.

But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.

I have put off my coat; how may I put it on? My feet are washed; how may I make them unclean?

Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?

Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.

Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.

Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.

Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.

Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.

And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.

And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.

Put up a flag on a clear mountain-top, make a loud outcry to them, give directions with the hand, so that they may go into the doors of the great ones.

Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?

Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds.

The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.

Let the doors be open, so that the upright nation which keeps faith may come in.

To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.

For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken, and taken in the net.

For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.

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.

And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.

For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.

And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

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 a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.

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?

How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:

It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.

But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.

The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.

So that they may see and be wise and give their mind to it, and that it may be clear to them all that the hand of the Lord has done this, and that the Holy One of Israel has made it.

Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true.

Give us word of what will be after this, so that we may be certain that you are gods: yes, do good or do evil, so that we may all see it and be surprised.

Who has given knowledge of it from the first, so that we may be certain of it? and from the start, so that we may say, His word is true? There is no one who gives news, or says anything, or who gives ear to your words.

Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.

Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.

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.

Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.

The woodworker is measuring out the wood with his line, marking it out with his pencil: after smoothing it with his plane, and making circles on it with his instrument, he gives it the form and glory of a man, so that it may be placed in the house.

Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.

They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;

And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.

So that they may see from the east and from the west that there is no God but me: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have salvation, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.

They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.

Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.

Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers.