7:1 A
good
name
is
better
than
precious
ointment,
and
the
day
of
death
than
the
day
of
birth.
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
all
mankind,
and
the
living
will
lay
it
to
heart.
7:3 Sorrow
is
better
than
laughter,
for
by
sadness
of
face
the
heart
is
made
glad.
7:4 The
heart
of
the
wise
is
in
the
house
of
mourning,
but
the
heart
of
fools
is
in
the
house
of
mirth.
7:5 It
is
better
for
a
man
to
hear
the
rebuke
of
the
wise
than
to
hear
the
song
of
fools.
7:6 For
as
the
crackling
of
thorns
under
a
pot,
so
is
the
laughter
of
the
fools;
this
also
is
vanity.
7:7 Surely
oppression
drives
the
wise
into
madness,
and
a
bribe
corrupts
the
heart.
7:8 Better
is
the
end
of
a
thing
than
its
beginning,
and
the
patient
in
spirit
is
better
than
the
proud
in
spirit.
7:9 Be
not
quick
in
your
spirit
to
become
angry,
for
anger
lodges
in
the
bosom
of
fools.
7:10 Say
not,
"Why
were
the
former
days
better
than
these"
For
it
is
not
from
wisdom
that
you
ask
this.
7:11 Wisdom
is
good
with
an
inheritance,
an
advantage
to
those
who
see
the
sun.
7:12 For
the
protection
of
wisdom
is
like
the
protection
of
money,
and
the
advantage
of
knowledge
is
that
wisdom
preserves
the
life
of
him
who
has
it.
7:13 Consider
the
work
of
God:
who
can
make
straight
what
he
has
made
crooked
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
man
may
not
find
out
anything
that
will
be
after
him.
7:15 In
my
vain
life
I
have
seen
everything.
There
is
a
righteous
man
who
perishes
in
his
righteousness,
and
there
is
a
wicked
man
who
prolongs
his
life
in
his
evildoing.
7:16 Be
not
overly
righteous,
and
do
not
make
yourself
too
wise.
Why
should
you
destroy
yourself
7:17 Be
not
overly
wicked,
neither
be
a
fool.
Why
should
you
die
before
your
time
7:18 It
is
good
that
you
should
take
hold
of
this,
and
from
that
withhold
not
your
hand,
for
the
one
who
fears
God
shall
come
out
from
both
of
them.
7:19 Wisdom
gives
strength
to
the
wise
man
more
than
ten
rulers
who
are
in
a
city.
7:20 Surely
there
is
not
a
righteous
man
on
earth
who
does
good
and
never
sins.
7:21 Do
not
take
to
heart
all
the
things
that
people
say,
lest
you
hear
your
servant
cursing
you.
7:22 Your
heart
knows
that
many
times
you
yourself
have
cursed
others.
7:23 All
this
I
have
tested
by
wisdom.
I
said,
"I
will
be
wise,"
but
it
was
far
from
me.
7:24 That
which
has
been
is
far
off,
and
deep,
very
deep;
who
can
find
it
out
7:25 I
turned
my
heart
to
know
and
to
search
out
and
to
seek
wisdom
and
the
scheme
of
things,
and
to
know
the
wickedness
of
folly
and
the
foolishness
that
is
madness.
7:26 And
I
find
something
more
bitter
than
death:
the
woman
whose
heart
is
snares
and
nets,
and
whose
hands
are
fetters.
He
who
pleases
God
escapes
her,
but
the
sinner
is
taken
by
her.
7:27 Behold,
this
is
what
I
found,
says
the
Preacher,
while
adding
one
thing
to
another
to
find
the
scheme
of
things--
7:28 which
my
soul
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.
7:29 See,
this
alone
I
found,
that
God
made
man
upright,
but
they
have
sought
out
many
schemes.