Ecclesiastes 7
7:1A good name is above good oil, and the day of death above the day of birth.
7:2It is good to go into a house of mourning, than than to go into a house of a banquet; in so far as this is the end of every man; and the living man will give good to his heart.
7:3Better is rage than laughter, for by hurt of countenance the heart will be made better.
7:4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; and the heart of fools is in the house of gladness.
7:5It is good to hear the reproach of the wise, than for a man to hear songs of fools.
7:6As the sound of the thorn-bushes burning under the kettle, so the laughter, the one of the fools; and indeed this is folly.
7:7For extortion drives the wise man mad, and destroys the magnanimity of his heart.
7:8Better the last of matters than its beginning; better the lenient than high spirit.
7:9You should not hasten in your spirit to be enraged, for rage shall rest in the bosom of fools.
7:10You should not say, What happened that the former days were good over these? for you asked not in wisdom concerning this.
7:11Wisdom is good with an allotment and abundance to the ones viewing the sun.
7:12For wisdom in its shadow is as the shadow of silver; and the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom will restore to life the one having it.
7:13Behold the actions of God! For who shall be able to adorn what ever God should turn from him?
7:14In the day of goodness live in good! and look out in the day of evil! Behold! and indeed with one God caused harmony with these concerning speech, that man should not find anything after him.
7:15All things I beheld in days of my folly. There is a just man being destroyed in his justice, and there is an impious man abiding in his evil.
7:16Do not become super righteous, nor discern extra, lest at any time you should be overwhelmed!
7:17You should not be super impious, and do not become hard, that you should not die in your time!
7:18It is good for you to hold fast by this; and indeed of this you should not defile your hand. For to the ones fearing God all things shall go forth.
7:19Wisdom will give help to the wise one over ten exercising authority, of the ones being in the city.
7:20For there is no just man on the earth who shall do good and shall not sin.
7:21And indeed unto all the words which they shall speak, you should not put them to your heart, so that you should not hear your servant cursing you.
7:22For very often he will act wickedly against you, and returning many times he shall inflict your heart; that as also indeed you cursed others.
7:23All these things I tested in wisdom. I said, I shall be discerning, but it was far from me.
7:24Far above what was, and a deep depth -- who shall find it?
7:25I and my heart circled about to know, and to survey, and to seek wisdom, and the reckoning of things, and to know the impious man's foolishness, and rioting, and deviation.
7:26And I find her more bitter than death -- with the woman in which her heart is snares and dragnets, and a bond in her hands. He that is good before the face of God shall be delivered from her; and the one sinning will be seized with her.
7:27Behold! this I found, said the ecclesiastic, counting one by one, to find a device,
7:28which my soul anxiously sought, and I did not find. Even one man from out of a thousand did I find. And a woman among all these I did not find.
7:29Except behold! this I found, that God dealt with the upright man. And they sought many devices. Who knows the wise? And who knows the loosening of a saying?