Ecclesiastes 7:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
Ecclesiastes 7:1 ESV
A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Ecclesiastes 7:2 ESV
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.
Ecclesiastes 7:4 ESV
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Ecclesiastes 7:5 ESV
It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:6 ESV
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7:9 ESV
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV
Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
Ecclesiastes 7:12 ESV
For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Ecclesiastes 7:14 ESV
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
Ecclesiastes 7:15 ESV
In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.
Ecclesiastes 7:16 ESV
Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
Ecclesiastes 7:18 ESV
It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.
Ecclesiastes 7:21 ESV
Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you.
Ecclesiastes 7:23 ESV
All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.
Ecclesiastes 7:25 ESV
I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.
Ecclesiastes 7:26 ESV
And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.
Ecclesiastes 7:27 ESV
Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things
Ecclesiastes 7:28 ESV
which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.
Ecclesiastes 7:29 ESV
See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.