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Eclesiastes 7

1 A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the day ofHe speaks thus after the judgment of the flesh, which thinks death is the end of all evils, or else because this corporal death is the entering into everlasting life.death than the day of one's birth.

2 [It is] better to go to the house ofWhere we may see the hand of God and learn to examine our lives.mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that [is] the end of all men; and the living will lay [it] to his heart.

3 {cf2 (7:5)} Anger is better then laughter: for by a sad looke the heart is made better.

4 {cf2 (7:6)} The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.

5 {cf2 (7:7)} Better it is to heare ye rebuke of a wise man, then that a man should heare the song of fooles.

6 For as the crackling ofWhich crackle for a while and profit nothing.thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity.

7 Surely oppression maketh a wise manA man that is esteemed wise, when he falls to oppression, becomes like a beast.mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

8 Better [is] theHe notes their lightness who attempt a thing and suddenly leave it off again.end of a thing than its beginning: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.

9 {cf2 (7:11)} Be not thou of an hastie spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.

10 Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquireMurmur not against God when he sends adversities for man's sins.wisely concerning this.

11 Wisdom [is] good with anHe answers to them who do not value wisdom unless riches are joined with it, showing that both are the gifts of God, but that wisdom is far more excellent and may be without riches.inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.

12 {cf2 (7:14)} For man shall rest in the shadowe of wisedome, and in the shadowe of siluer: but the excellencie of the knowledge of wisedome giueth life to the possessers thereof.

13 {cf2 (7:15)} Beholde the worke of God: for who can make straight that which he hath made crooked?

14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversityConsider why God sends it and what may comfort you.consider: God also hath appointed the one as well as the other, to the end that man should findThat man should be able to control nothing in his works.nothing after him.

15 All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in hisMeaning that cruel tyrants put the godly to death and let the wicked go free.righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.

16 Be not righteousDo not boast too much of your own justice and wisdom.over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

17 Be notDo not tarry long when you are admonished to come out of the way of wickedness.over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

18 [It is] good that thou shouldest take hold ofThat is, on these admonitions that go before.this; yea, also fromConsider what desolation and destruction will come, if you do not obey them.this withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall escape from them all.

19 {cf2 (7:21)} Wisedome shall strengthen the wise man more then ten mightie princes that are in ye citie.

20 {cf2 (7:22)} Surely there is no man iust in the earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.

21 Also take noCredit them not, neither care for them.heed to all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

22 {cf2 (7:24)} For often times also thine heart knoweth that thou likewise hast cursed others.

23 {cf2 (7:2)} All this haue I prooued by wisedome: I thought I will be wise, but it went farre from me.

24 That which is far off,Meaning wisdom.and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?

25 {cf2 (7:27)} I haue compassed about, both I and mine heart to knowe and to enquire and to search wisedome, and reason, and to knowe the wickednesse of follie, and the foolishnesse of madnesse,

26 {cf2 (7:28)} And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nettes and snares, and her handes, as bands: he that is good before God, shalbe deliuered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, toThat is, to come to a conclusion.find out the account:

28 {cf2 (7:30)} And yet my soule seeketh, but I finde it not: I haue found one man of a thousand: but a woman among them all haue I not founde.

29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out manyAnd so are cause for their own destruction.devices.

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