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| 7:1 |
 Good name is better then precious ointment: and the day of death, then the day of ones birth. |
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| 7:2 |
It is better to goe to the house of mourning, then to goe to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the liuing will lay it to his heart. |
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| 7:3 |
Sorrow is better then laughter: for by the sadnesse of the countenance the heart is made better. |
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| 7:4 |
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth. |
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| 7:5 |
It is better to heare the rebuke of the wise, then for a man to heare the song of fooles. |
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| 7:6 |
For as the crackling of thornes vnder a pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie. |
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| 7:7 |
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad: and a gift destroyeth the heart. |
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| 7:8 |
Better is the ende of a thing then the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better then the proude in spirit. |
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| 7:9 |
Be not hastie in thy spirit to bee angry: for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles. |
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| 7:10 |
Say not thou, What is the cause that the former dayes were better then these? For thou doest not enquire wisely concerning this. |
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| 7:11 |
Wisedome is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profite to them that see the sunne. |
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| 7:12 |
For wisedome is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellencie of knowledge is, that wisedome giueth life to them that haue it. |
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| 7:13 |
Consider the worke of God: for who can make that straight, which hee hath made crooked? |
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| 7:14 |
In the day of prosperitie be ioyfull, but in the day of aduersitie consider: God also hath set the one ouer against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. |
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| 7:15 |
All things haue I seene in the dayes of my vanitie: there is a iust man that perisheth in his righteousnes, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickednes. |
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| 7:16 |
Be not righteous ouer much, neither make thy selfe ouer wise: why shouldest thou destroy thy selfe? |
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| 7:17 |
Be not ouermuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? |
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| 7:18 |
It is good that thou shouldest take holde of this, yea also from this withdraw not thine hand: for hee that feareth God, shall come foorth of them all. |
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| 7:19 |
Wisedome strengtheneth the wise, more then ten mightie men which are in the citie. |
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| 7:20 |
For there is not a iust man vpon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. |
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| 7:21 |
Also take no heede vnto all words that are spoken; lest thou heare thy seruant curse thee. |
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| 7:22 |
For often times also thine owne heart knoweth, that thou thy selfe likewise hast cursed others. |
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| 7:23 |
All this haue I prooued by wisedome: I said, I will be wise, but it was farre from me. |
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| 7:24 |
That which is farre off, and exceeding deepe, who can finde it out? |
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| 7:25 |
I applyed mine heart to know, and to search, and to seeke out wisdome, and the reason of things, aud to know the wickednes of folly, euen of foolishnesse and madnesse. |
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| 7:26 |
And I finde more bitter then death, the woman whose heart is snares & nets, and her handes as bands: who so pleaseth God, shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her. |
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| 7:27 |
Behold, this haue I found (saith the Preacher) counting one by one to finde out the account: |
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| 7:28 |
Which yet my soule seeketh, but I finde not: one man among a thousand haue I found, but a woman among all those haue I not found. |
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| 7:29 |
Loe, this onely haue I found, that God hath made man vpright: but they haue sought out many inuentions. |
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