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Ecclesiastes 7 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:2 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the banquet house: since this is the end of every man; and the living man will apply good warning to his heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:3 - Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart will be made better.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 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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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:5 - It is better to hear a reproof of a wise man, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:6 - As the sound of thorns under a caldron, so is the laughter of fools: this is also vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:7 - For oppression makes a wise man mad, and destroys his noble heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:8 - The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof: the patient is better than the high-minded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9 - Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger will rest in the bosom of fools.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10 - Say not, What has happened, that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire in wisdom concerning this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:11 - Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and there is an advantage by it to them that see the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:12 - For wisdom in its shadow is as the shadow of silver: and the excellence of the knowledge of wisdom will give life to him that has it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:13 - Behold the works of God: for who shall be able to straighten him whom God has made crooked?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:14 - In the day of prosperity live joyfully, and consider in the day of adversity: consider, I say, God also has caused the one to agree with the other for this reason, that man should find nothing after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:15 - I have seen all things in the days of my vanity: there is a just man perishing in his justice, and there is an ungodly man remaining in his wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:16 - Be not very just; neither be very wise: lest thou be confounded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:17 - Be not very wicked; and be not stubborn: lest thou shouldest die before thy time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:18 - It is well for thee to hold fast by this; also by this defile not thine hand: for to them that fear God all things shall come forth well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:19 - Wisdom will help the wise man more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:20 - For there is not a righteous man in the earth, who will do good, and not sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:21 - Also take no heed to all the words which ungodly men shall speak; lest thou hear thy servant cursing thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:22 - For many times he shall trespass against thee, and repeatedly shall he afflict thine heart; for thus also hast thou cursed others.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:23 - All these things have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:24 - That which is far beyond what was, and a great depth, who shall find it out?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:25 - I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account of things, and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:26 - And I find her to be, and I will pronounce to be more bitter than death the woman which is a snare, and her heart nets, who has a band in her hands: he that is good in the sight of God shall be delivered from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:27 - Behold, this have I found, said the Preacher, seeking by one at a time to find out the account,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:28 - which my soul sought after, but I found not: for I have found one man of a thousand; but a woman in all these I have not found.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:29 - But, behold, this have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many devices. Who knows the wise? and who knows the interpretation of a saying?
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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