Ecclesiastes 7:1-9 ▼

1 (7:3) A good name is better then a good oyntment, and the day of death, then the day that one is borne.

2 (7:4) It is better to goe to the house of mourning, then to goe to the house of feasting, because this is the ende of all men: and the liuing shall lay it to his heart.

3 (7:5) Anger is better then laughter: for by a sad looke the heart is made better.

4 (7:6) The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.

5 (7:7) Better it is to heare ye rebuke of a wise man, then that a man should heare the song of fooles.

6 (7:8) For like ye noyse of the thornes vnder the pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.

7 (7:9) Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad: and the rewarde destroyeth the heart.

8 (7:10) The ende of a thing is better then the beginning thereof, and the pacient in spirit is better then the proude in spirit.

9 (7:11) Be not thou of an hastie spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.