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Ecclesiastes 7:7 (NIV)
Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 (NIV)
The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.
Ecclesiastes 7:9 (NIV)
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:10 (NIV)
Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.
Ecclesiastes 7:11 (NIV)
Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing and benefits those who see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 7:12 (NIV)
Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves those who have it.
Ecclesiastes 7:13 (NIV)
Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?
Ecclesiastes 7:14 (NIV)
When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.
Ecclesiastes 7:15 (NIV)
In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these: the righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 7:16 (NIV)
Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise— why destroy yourself?
Ecclesiastes 7:17 (NIV)
Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool— why die before your time?
Ecclesiastes 7:18 (NIV)
It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.
Ecclesiastes 7:19 (NIV)
Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful than ten rulers in a city.
Ecclesiastes 7:20 (NIV)
Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins.
Ecclesiastes 7:21 (NIV)
Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you—
Ecclesiastes 7:22 (NIV)
for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.
Ecclesiastes 7:23 (NIV)
All this I tested by wisdom and I said, “I am determined to be wise”— but this was beyond me.
Ecclesiastes 7:24 (NIV)
Whatever exists is far off and most profound— who can discover it?
Ecclesiastes 7:25 (NIV)
So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.
Ecclesiastes 7:26 (NIV)
I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.
Ecclesiastes 7:27 (NIV)
“Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
Ecclesiastes 7:28 (NIV)
while I was still searching but not finding— I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.
Ecclesiastes 7:29 (NIV)
This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.”
Ecclesiastes 8:1 (NIV)
Who is like the wise? Who knows the explanation of things? A person’s wisdom brightens their face and changes its hard appearance.
Ecclesiastes 8:2 (NIV)
Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God.