These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ecclesiastes 7
Tanakh 29 verses
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A good is better than precious oil; And the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, Than to go to the house of feasting; For that is the end of all men, And the living will lay it to his .
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Vexation is better than laughter; For by the sadness of the countenance the may be gladdened.
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- 4 The of the wise is in the house of mourning; But the of fools is in the house of mirth.
- 5 It is better to the rebuke of the wise, Than for a man to the song of fools.
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For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity.
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- 7 Surely oppression turneth a wise man into a fool; And a destroyeth the understanding.
- 8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; And the patient in is better than the proud in .
- 9 Be not hasty in thy to be angry; For anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
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Say not thou: ‘How was it that the former days were better than these?’ for it is not out of wisdom that thou inquirest concerning this.
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- 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance, Yea, a profit to them that see the sun.
- 12 For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.
- 13 Consider the work of ; for who can make that straight, which He hath made crooked?
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; hath made even the one as well as the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
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Ecclesiastes 3:22 Ecclesiastes 3:4 Deuteronomy 28:47 Acts 14:22 John 16:22-23 Jeremiah 23:20 Hosea 2:6-7 Isaiah 22:12-14 Deuteronomy 8:3 Psalm 30:11-12 Ecclesiastes 12:8 Micah 6:9 Psalm 119:71 1 Kings 17:17-18 Luke 15:17-18 Job 10:1-2 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 James 5:13 Matthew 9:13 Psalm 40:3 Haggai 1:5-7 Isaiah 42:25 Ecclesiastes 12:13 Isaiah 26:11 1 Kings 8:47 Psalm 94:12-13 -
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All things have I seen in the days of my vanity; there is a righteous man that perisheth in his , and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil-doing.
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Ecclesiastes 8:12-14 Ecclesiastes 6:12 Ecclesiastes 5:16-17 Ecclesiastes 3:16 2 Chronicles 24:21-22 Job 9:22-23 Ecclesiastes 9:9 Genesis 47:9 John 16:2 Psalm 73:3-13 Isaiah 65:20 Matthew 23:34-35 Psalm 39:6 Ecclesiastes 9:1-2 Ecclesiastes 2:23 1 Samuel 22:18-19 1 Kings 21:13 Jeremiah 12:1-2 Acts 7:52 Job 21:7-15 -
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Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise; why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
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Romans 12:3 Proverbs 25:16 Philippians 3:6 Luke 18:12 Colossians 2:23 1 Corinthians 3:20 Matthew 23:23-24 Job 11:12 Romans 11:25 Matthew 23:29 Matthew 6:1-7 Matthew 9:14 1 Corinthians 3:18 James 3:13-17 Job 28:28 Matthew 23:38 Genesis 3:6 Matthew 15:2-9 Romans 10:2 Colossians 2:18 Matthew 23:5 1 Timothy 4:3 Ecclesiastes 12:12 Proverbs 23:4 Revelation 18:19 - 17 Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish; why shouldest thou die before thy time?
- 18 It is good that thou shouldest take hold of the one; yea, also from the other withdraw not thy hand; for he that feareth shall discharge himself of them all.
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Wisdom is a stronghold to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.
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- 20 For there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
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Also take not heed unto all words that are spoken, lest thou thy thee;
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for oftentimes also thine own knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
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All this have I tried by wisdom; I said: ‘I will get wisdom’; but it was far from me.
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That which is is far off, and exceeding deep; who can find it out?
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I turned about, and applied my to and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;
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- 26 and I find more bitter than death the woman, whose is snares and nets, and her hands as bands; whoso pleaseth shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
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Behold, this have I found, saith Koheleth, adding one thing to another, to find out the account;
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which yet my sought, but I found not; one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
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- 29 Behold, this only have I found, that made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.