Ecclésiaste (or Qohélet), Chapter 7: BIBLE, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTRE

Ecclesiastes, Chapter 7

¹ A good name is better than a good ointment, And the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.	1 Pro 22:1 Ecc 4:2 Ecc 7:8
² It is better to go to a house of mourning Than to go to a house of feasting, Because^a I.e. deaththat is the end of every man, And the living^b Lit givestakes it to^c Lit his heartheart.	2 Ecc 2:14 Ecc 2:16 Ecc 3:19 Ecc 3:20 Ecc 6:6 Ecc 9:2 Ecc 9:3 Psa 90:12
³ Sorrow is better than laughter, For when a face is sad a heart may be happy.	3 Ecc 2:2 Co2 7:10
⁴ The^d Lit heartmind of the wise is in the house of mourning, While the^e Lit heartmind of fools is in the house of pleasure.
⁵ It is better to listen to the rebuke of a wise man Than for one to listen to the song of fools.	5 Psa 141:5 Pro 6:23 Pro 13:18 Pro 15:31 Pro 15:32 Pro 25:12 Ecc 9:17
⁶ For as the^f Lit voicecrackling of thorn bushes under a pot, So is the laughter of the fool; And this too is futility.	6 Psa 58:9 Psa 118:12 Ecc 2:2
⁷ For oppression makes a wise man mad, And a bribe^g Lit destroyscorrupts the heart.	7 Ecc 4:1 Ecc 5:8 Exo 23:8 Deu 16:19 Pro 17:8 Pro 17:23
⁸ The end of a matter is better than its beginning; Patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit.	8 Ecc 7:1 Pro 14:29 Pro 16:32 Gal 5:22 Eph 4:2
⁹ Do not be^h Lit hasty in your spiriteager in your heart to be angry, For anger resides in the bosom of fools.	9 Pro 14:17 Jam 1:19
¹⁰ Do not say, “Why is it that the former days were better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.
¹¹ Wisdom along with an inheritance is good And an advantage to those who see the sun.	11 Pro 8:10 Pro 8:11 Ecc 2:13
¹² For wisdom isⁱ Lit in a shadowprotection just as money is^j Lit in a shadowprotection, But the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the lives of its possessors.	12 Ecc 7:19 Ecc 9:18 Pro 3:18 Pro 8:35
¹³ Consider the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent?	13 Ecc 3:11 Ecc 8:17 Ecc 1:15
¹⁴ In the day of prosperity be happy, But in the day of adversity consider— God has made the one as well as the other So that man will not discover anything that will be after him.	14 Deu 26:11 Ecc 3:22 Ecc 9:7 Ecc 11:9 Deu 8:5 Job 2:10 Ecc 3:22
¹⁵ I have seen everything during my^k Lit dayslifetime of futility; there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness. ¹⁶ Do not be excessively righteous and do not be overly wise. Why should you ruin yourself? ¹⁷ Do not be excessively wicked and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time? ¹⁸ It is good that you grasp one thing and also not^l Lit rest your handlet go of the other; for the one who fears God comes forth with^m Lit allboth of them.	15 Ecc 6:12 Ecc 9:9 Ecc 8:14 Ecc 8:12 Ecc 8:13 16 Pro 25:16 Php 3:6 Rom 12:3 17 Job 22:16 Psa 55:23 Pro 10:27 18 Ecc 3:14 Ecc 5:7 Ecc 8:12 Ecc 8:13 Ecc 12:13
¹⁹ Wisdom strengthens a wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city. ²⁰ Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who continually does good and who never sins. ²¹ Also, do notⁿ Lit give your heart totake seriously all words which are spoken, so that you will not hear your servant cursing you. ²² For^o Lit your heart knows alsoyou also have realized that you likewise have many times cursed others.	19 Ecc 7:12 Ecc 9:13-18 20 Ki1 8:46 Ch2 6:36 Psa 143:2 Pro 20:9 Rom 3:23 21 Pro 30:10
²³ I tested all this with wisdom, and I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me. ²⁴ What has been is remote and exceedingly^p Lit deepmysterious. Who can discover it? ²⁵ I^q Lit turned aboutdirected my^r Lit heartmind to know, to investigate and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the evil of folly and the foolishness of madness. ²⁶ And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.	23 Ecc 3:11 Ecc 8:17 24 Rom 11:33 Job 11:7 Job 37:23 Ecc 8:17 25 Ecc 1:15 Ecc 1:17 Ecc 10:13 26 Pro 5:4 Pro 7:23 Pro 6:23 Pro 6:24 Pro 22:14
²⁷ “Behold, I have discovered this,” says the Preacher, “adding one thing to another to find an explanation, ²⁸ which^s Lit my soul still seeksI am still seeking but have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all these. ²⁹ Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.”	28 Ki1 11:3 29 Gen 1:27


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