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Ecclesiastes 7

Wisdom

¹A good name is better than fine perfume,

and the day of death better than the day of birth.

²It is better to go to a house of mourning

than to go to a house of feasting,

for death is the destiny of everyone;

the living should take this to heart.

³Frustration is better than laughter,

because a sad face is good for the heart.

⁴The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,

but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

⁵It is better to heed the rebuke of a wise person

than to listen to the song of fools.

⁶Like the crackling of thorns under the pot,

so is the laughter of fools.

This too is meaningless.

⁷Extortion turns a wise person into a fool,

and a bribe corrupts the heart.

⁸The end of a matter is better than its beginning,

and patience is better than pride.

⁹Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit,

for anger resides in the lap of fools.

¹⁰Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?”

For it is not wise to ask such questions.

¹¹Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing

and benefits those who see the sun.

¹²Wisdom is a shelter

as money is a shelter,

but the advantage of knowledge is this:

Wisdom preserves those who have it.

¹³Consider what God has done:

Who can straighten

what he has made crooked?

¹⁴When times are good, be happy;

but when times are bad, consider this:

God has made the one

as well as the other.

Therefore, no one can discover

anything about their future.

¹⁵In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these:

the righteous perishing in their righteousness,

and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

¹⁶Do not be overrighteous,

neither be overwise—

why destroy yourself?

¹⁷Do not be overwicked,

and do not be a fool—

why die before your time?

¹⁸It is good to grasp the one

and not let go of the other.

Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.

¹⁹Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful

than ten rulers in a city.

²⁰Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,

no one who does what is right and never sins.

²¹Do not pay attention to every word people say,

or you may hear your servant cursing you—

²²for you know in your heart

that many times you yourself have cursed others.

²³All this I tested by wisdom and I said,

“I am determined to be wise”—

but this was beyond me.

²⁴Whatever exists is far off and most profound—

who can discover it?

²⁵So I turned my mind to understand,

to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things

and to understand the stupidity of wickedness

and the madness of folly.

²⁶I find more bitter than death

the woman who is a snare,

whose heart is a trap

and whose hands are chains.

The man who pleases God will escape her,

but the sinner she will ensnare.

²⁷“Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered:

“Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—

²⁸while I was still searching

but not finding—

I found one upright man among a thousand,

but not one upright woman among them all.

²⁹This only have I found:

God created mankind upright,

but they have gone in search of many schemes.”

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.

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²²This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, ²³for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (Romans 3:22-23)