| 章 |
| 7:1 |
A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death, than the day of birth.
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| 7:2 |
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for this is the end of everyone, and the living will lay it to heart.
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| 7:3 |
Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made glad.
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| 7:4 |
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
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| 7:5 |
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.
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| 7:6 |
For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools; this also is vanity.
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| 7:7 |
Surely oppression makes the wise foolish, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
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| 7:8 |
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; the patient in spirit are better than the proud in spirit.
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| 7:9 |
Do not be quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
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| 7:10 |
Do not say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
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| 7:11 |
Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.
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| 7:12 |
For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to the one who possesses it.
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| 7:13 |
Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked?
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| 7:14 |
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 mortals may not find out anything that will come after them.
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| 7:15 |
In my vain life I have seen everything; there are righteous people who perish in their righteousness, and there are wicked people who prolong their life in their evildoing.
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| 7:16 |
Do not be too righteous, and do not act too wise; why should you destroy yourself?
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| 7:17 |
Do not be too wicked, and do not be a fool; why should you die before your time?
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| 7:18 |
It is good that you should take hold of the one, without letting go of the other; for the one who fears God shall succeed with both.
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| 7:19 |
Wisdom gives strength to the wise more than ten rulers that are in a city.
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| 7:20 |
Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.
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| 7:21 |
Do not give heed to everything that people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you;
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| 7:22 |
your heart knows that many times you have yourself cursed others.
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| 7:23 |
All this I have tested by wisdom; I said, "I will be wise," but it was far from me.
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| 7:24 |
That which is, is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?
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| 7:25 |
I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things, and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.
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| 7:26 |
I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.
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| 7:27 |
See, this is what I found, says the Teacher, adding one thing to another to find the sum,
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| 7:28 |
which my mind has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.
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| 7:29 |
See, this alone I found, that God made human beings straightforward, but they have devised many schemes.
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