Help QuickNav Adv. Options
BBE

BBE

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Ecclesiastes 7 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:1 - A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:2 - It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:3 - Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:4 - The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:5 - It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:6 - Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:7 - The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:8 - The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9 - Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10 - Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:11 - Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:12 - Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:13 - Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:14 - In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:15 - These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:16 - Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:17 - Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:18 - It is good to take this in your hand and not to keep your hand from that; he who has the fear of God will be free of the two.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:19 - Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:20 - There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:21 - Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:22 - Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:23 - All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:24 - Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:25 - I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:26 - And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:27 - Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:28 - For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:29 - This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.
BBE

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Pericope

Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

New American Standard Bible
Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
BBE
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
BBE
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Ecclesiastes Chapter 7 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras