<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1017996">Ecclesiastes</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1018117">Chapter 7</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1018104">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1018147">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018118">1</a>. A GOOD name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018119">2</a>. It is better to go to the house of 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018120">3</a>. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018121">4</a>. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018122">5</a>. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018123">6</a>. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018124">7</a>. Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018125">8</a>. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018126">9</a>. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018127">10</a>. Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these?  for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018128">11</a>. Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018129">12</a>. For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018130">13</a>. Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018131">14</a>. In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018132">15</a>. All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018133">16</a>. Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018134">17</a>. Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018135">18</a>. It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018136">19</a>. Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018137">20</a>. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018138">21</a>. Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018139">22</a>. For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018140">23</a>. All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018141">24</a>. That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018142">25</a>. I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018143">26</a>. And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018144">27</a>. Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018145">28</a>. Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1018146">29</a>. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.</li>
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