The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 6:11 (ASV)

Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 6:12 (ASV)

For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?
for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 7:1 (ESV)

The Contrast of Wisdom and Folly

A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.

 

[Deade]

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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 7:3 (ESV)

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

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.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 7:5 (ESV)

It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 7:6 (ESV)

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 7:7 (ESV)

Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

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.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 7:9 (ESV)

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 7:10 (ESV)

Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ecclesiastes 7:11 (NKJV)
Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And profitable to those who see the sun.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ecclesiastes 7:12 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.

 

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https://newcreeations.org/ecclesiastes-713/

 

[Deade]

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.

 

[Deade]

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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 7:16 (ESV)

Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 7:17 (ESV)

Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 7:18 (LEB)

It is good to take hold of the one and also must not let go of the other;
for whoever fears God will hold both of them secure.