...efforts by a universe that is not knowable and not cut to human specifications. "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Koheleth rejects outright the divine order supposedly revealed in the promise to the patriarchs and...

...hopefully they won't have to hear us talk about Leventhorpe for a while! ... the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. —Ecclesiastes 9:1 Contents Acknowledgments v Preface 1 1. English Roots: Ancestry, Youth and the...

...'do it'. Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. (pr 31:3). I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. (ec 9:11). Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised,...

...translates a passage of fcc/es/asfes into 'modern English of the worst sort'. This is the original: I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. This is Orwell's translation: Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion...

...he called "modern English." Here's the original passage from Ecclesiastes in the King James Bible: I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Objective consideration of contemporary...

...they work harder than you or are more intelligent or wiser than you. Listen to what the bible says. "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes 9: 1 1 It is God that...

...you got a headache. You are crushed under the wreckage of the 18 wheeler. (Eccl 9:11-12) Solomon said "I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but. time and chance happeneth to them all". "For man also knoweth not his time:...

...Bible, p. 620) and how it sounds when put into bureauspeak, slang, and psychobabble: The original: I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Bureauspeak: "Objective consideration...

...vote is worth having, and if our man is ran, we can carry Indiana," " Surely the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all." These secondary considerations do not always prevail. Intellectual ability and force of character must...

...squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. — Benjamin Franklin Patience and Moderation / returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes 9: 1 1 One of the facts...