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Ecclesiastes 7:1-15

A good name
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[is] better
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than precious
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ointment
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and the day
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of death
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than the day
<03117>

of one's birth
<03205> (8736)_.

[It is] better
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to go
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to the house
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of mourning
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than to go
<03212> (8800)

to the house
<01004>

of feasting
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for
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that [is] the end
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of all men
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and the living
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will lay
<05414> (8799)

[it] to his heart
<03820>_.

Sorrow
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[is] better
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than laughter
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for by the sadness
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of the countenance
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the heart
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is made better
<03190> (8799)_.

{Sorrow: or, Anger}

The heart
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of the wise
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[is] in the house
<01004>

of mourning
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but the heart
<03820>

of fools
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[is] in the house
<01004>

of mirth
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[It is] better
<02896>

to hear
<08085> (8800)

the rebuke
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of the wise
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than for a man
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to hear
<08085> (8802)

the song
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of fools
<03684>_.

For as the crackling
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of thorns
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under a pot
<05518>_,

so [is] the laughter
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of the fool
<03684>_:

this also [is] vanity
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{crackling: Heb. sound}

Surely oppression
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maketh a wise man
<02450>

mad
<01984> (8779)_;

and a gift
<04979>

destroyeth
<06> (8762)

the heart
<03820>_.

Better
<02896>

[is] the end
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of a thing
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than the beginning
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thereof: [and] the patient
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in spirit
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[is] better
<02896>

than the proud
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in spirit
<07307>_.

Be not hasty
<0926> (8762)

in thy spirit
<07307>

to be angry
<03707> (8800)_:

for anger
<03708>

resteth
<05117> (8799)

in the bosom
<02436>

of fools
<03684>_.

Say
<0559> (8799)

not thou, What is [the cause] that the former
<07223>

days
<03117>

were better
<02896>

than these? for thou dost not enquire
<07592> (8804)

wisely
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concerning this. {wisely: Heb. out of wisdom}

Wisdom
<02451>

[is] good
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with an inheritance
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and [by it there is] profit
<03148>

to them that see
<07200> (8802)

the sun
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{good...: or, as good as an inheritance, yea, better too}

For wisdom
<02451>

[is] a defence
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[and] money
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[is] a defence
<06738>_:

but the excellency
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of knowledge
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[is, that] wisdom
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giveth life
<02421> (8762)

to them that have
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it. {defence: Heb. shadow}

Consider
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the work
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of God
<0430>_:

for who can
<03201> (8799)

make [that] straight
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which he hath made crooked
<05791> (8765)_?

In the day
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of prosperity
<02896>

be joyful
<02896>_,

but in the day
<03117>

of adversity
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consider
<07200> (8798)_:

God
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also hath set
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the one over against
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the other, to the end
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that man
<0120>

should find
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nothing
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after
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him. {set: Heb. made}

All [things] have I seen
<07200> (8804)

in the days
<03117>

of my vanity
<01892>_:

there is
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a just
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[man] that perisheth
<06> (8802)

in his righteousness
<06664>_,

and there is a wicked
<07563>

[man] that prolongeth
<0748> (8688)

[his life] in his wickedness
<07451>_.

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