Ecclesiastes Chapter 7

• Ecclesiastes 7:1
  Ecclesiastes.
• Ecclesiastes 7:2
  A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.
• Ecclesiastes 7:3
  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 should take this to he...
• Ecclesiastes 7:4
  Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
• Ecclesiastes 7:5
  The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
• Ecclesiastes 7:6
  It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.
• Ecclesiastes 7:7
  For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
• Ecclesiastes 7:8
  Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.
• Ecclesiastes 7:9
  Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
• Ecclesiastes 7:10
  Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
• Ecclesiastes 7:11
  Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.
• Ecclesiastes 7:12
  Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
• Ecclesiastes 7:13
  For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
• Ecclesiastes 7:14
  Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?
• Ecclesiastes 7:15
  In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man s...
• Ecclesiastes 7:16
  All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his...
• Ecclesiastes 7:17
  Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
• Ecclesiastes 7:18
  Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
• Ecclesiastes 7:19
  It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.
• Ecclesiastes 7:20
  Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
• Ecclesiastes 7:21
  Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.
• Ecclesiastes 7:22
  Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;
• Ecclesiastes 7:23
  for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.
• Ecclesiastes 7:24
  All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.
• Ecclesiastes 7:25
  That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
• Ecclesiastes 7:26
  I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity,...
• Ecclesiastes 7:27
  I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the si...
• Ecclesiastes 7:28
  “Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find an explanation
• Ecclesiastes 7:29
  which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.
• Ecclesiastes 7:30
  Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.”