Ecclesiastes 7 : 1 (HCSB)
A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of one's death than the day of one's birth.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 2 (HCSB)
It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, since that is the end of all mankind, and the living should take it to heart.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 3 (HCSB)
Grief is better than laughter, for when a face is sad, a heart may be glad.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 4 (HCSB)
The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in a house of pleasure.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 5 (HCSB)
It is better to listen to rebuke from a wise person than to listen to the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 6 (HCSB)
For like the crackling of *burning thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 7 (HCSB)
Surely, the practice of extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe destroys the mind.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 8 (HCSB)
The end of a matter is better than its beginning; a patient spirit is better than a proud spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 9 (HCSB)
Don't let your spirit rush to be angry, for anger abides in the heart of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 10 (HCSB)
Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not wise of you to ask this.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 11 (HCSB)
Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, and an advantage to those who see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 12 (HCSB)
For wisdom is protection as money is protection, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 13 (HCSB)
Consider the work of God; for who can straighten out what He has made crooked?
Ecclesiastes 7 : 14 (HCSB)
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: without question, God has made the one as well as the other, so that man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 15 (HCSB)
In my futile life I have seen everything: there is a righteous man who perishes in spite of his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in spite of his evil.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 16 (HCSB)
Don't be excessively righteous, and don't be overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
Ecclesiastes 7 : 17 (HCSB)
Don't be excessively wicked, and don't be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
Ecclesiastes 7 : 18 (HCSB)
It is good that you grasp the one and do not let the other slip from your hand. For the one who fears God will end up with both of them.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 19 (HCSB)
Wisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers of a city.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 20 (HCSB)
There is certainly no righteous man on the earth who does good and never sins.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 21 (HCSB)
Don't pay attention to everything people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you;
Ecclesiastes 7 : 22 (HCSB)
for you know that many times you yourself have cursed others.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 23 (HCSB)
I have tested all this by wisdom. I resolved, "I will be wise," but it was beyond me.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 24 (HCSB)
What exists is beyond *reach and very deep. Who can discover it?
Ecclesiastes 7 : 25 (HCSB)
I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and seek wisdom and an explanation *for things , and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 26 (HCSB)
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 27 (HCSB)
"Look," says the Teacher, "this I have discovered, by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation,
Ecclesiastes 7 : 28 (HCSB)
which my soul continually searches for but does not find: among a thousand *people I have found one true man, but among all these I have not found a true woman.
Ecclesiastes 7 : 29 (HCSB)
Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright, but they pursued many schemes."
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