Ecclesiastes 7 NASB 1995

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align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NASB 1995</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/ecclesiastes/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><font color="#000000"><b><i>Wisdom and Folly Contrasted</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>A good name is better than a good ointment,<br>            And the day of <i>ones</i> death is better than the day of ones birth.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>It is better to go to a house of mourning<br>            Than to go to a house of feasting,<br>            Because that is the end of every man,<br>            And the living takes <i>it</i> to heart.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>Sorrow is better than laughter,<br>            For when a face is sad a heart may be happy.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>The mind of the wise is in the house of mourning,<br>            While the mind of fools is in the house of pleasure.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>It is better to listen to the rebuke of a wise man<br>            Than for one to listen to the song of fools.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>For as the crackling of thorn bushes under a pot,<br>            So is the laughter of the fool;<br>            And this too is futility.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>For oppression makes a wise man mad,<br>            And a bribe corrupts the heart.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>The end of a matter is better than its beginning;<br>            Patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Do not be eager in your heart to be angry,<br>            For anger resides in the bosom of fools.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Do not say, Why is it that the former days were better than these?<br>            For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Wisdom along with an inheritance is good<br>            And an advantage to those who see the sun.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>For wisdom is protection <i>just as</i> money is protection,<br>            But the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the lives of its possessors.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Consider the work of God,<br>            For who is able to straighten what He has bent?<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>In the day of prosperity be happy,<br>            But in the day of adversity consider<br>            God has made the one as well as the other<br>            So that man will not discover anything <i>that will be</i> after him.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>I have seen everything during my lifetime of futility; there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness and there is a wicked man who prolongs <i>his life</i> in his wickedness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Do not be excessively righteous and do not be overly wise. Why should you ruin yourself? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Do not be excessively wicked and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>It is good that you grasp one thing and also not let go of the other; for the one who fears God comes forth with both of them.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Wisdom strengthens a wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who <i>continually</i> does good and who never sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Also, do not take seriously all words which are spoken, so that you will not hear your servant cursing you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>For you also have realized that you likewise have many times cursed others.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>I tested all this with wisdom, <i>and</i> I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>What has been is remote and exceedingly mysterious. Who can discover it? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>I directed my mind to know, to investigate and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the evil of folly and the foolishness of madness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Behold, I have discovered this, says the Preacher, <i>adding</i> one thing to another to find an explanation, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>which I am still seeking but have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all these. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/7-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 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