Ecclesiastes 7
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A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
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 heart.

better

Genesis 48:1 And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, …

Genesis 49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, you sons of Jacob; and listen …

Genesis 50:15-17 And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, …

Job 1:4,5 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day…

Isaiah 5:11,12 Woe to them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow …

Isaiah 22:12-14 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to …

Amos 6:3-6 You that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence …

Matthew 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Matthew 14:6 But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced …

1 Peter 4:3,4 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will …

that

Numbers 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part …

Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would …

Romans 6:21,22 What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? …

Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory …

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:

living

Deuteronomy 32:46 And he said to them, Set your hearts to all the words which I testify …

Isaiah 47:7 And you said, I shall be a lady for ever: so that you did not lay …

Haggai 1:5 Now therefore thus said the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give …

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

wisdom

Job 1:10 Have not you made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about …

Job 22:21-15 Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall …

Proverbs 2:7,11 He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them …

Proverbs 14:20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbor: but the rich has many friends.

Proverbs 18:10,11 The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runs into it, …

Isaiah 33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times, and …

a defence

Judges 9:15 And the bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me king …

Psalm 57:1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: for my soul trusts in …

Isaiah 30:2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; …

Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert …

the excellency

Deuteronomy 30:19,20 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have …

Deuteronomy 32:47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and …

Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and happy is …

Proverbs 8:35 For whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.

Proverbs 9:11 For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life …

Proverbs 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivers from death.

John 12:50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatever I speak …

John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true …

Philippians 3:8 Yes doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency …

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

the day

Ecclesiastes 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Deuteronomy 28:47 Because you served not the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with …

Psalm 30:11,12 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off …

Psalm 40:3 And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many …

Matthew 9:13 But go you and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not …

John 16:22,23 And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and …

James 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

but

Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with …

1 Kings 8:47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land where they were …

1 Kings 17:17,18 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, …

2 Chronicles 33:12,13 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled …

Job 10:1,2 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; …

Psalm 94:12,13 Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law…

Psalm 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn your statutes.

Isaiah 22:12-14 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to …

Isaiah 26:11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall …

Isaiah 42:25 Therefore he has poured on him the fury of his anger, and the strength …

Jeremiah 23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and …

Micah 6:9 The LORD's voice cries to the city, and the man of wisdom shall see …

Haggai 1:5-7 Now therefore thus said the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways…

Luke 15:17,18 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of …

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue …

set

Ecclesiastes 12:8,13 Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity…

Hosea 2:6,7 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make …

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

have I

Ecclesiastes 2:23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yes, his heart …

Ecclesiastes 5:16,17 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall …

Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of …

Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage …

Psalm 39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted …

there is a just

Ecclesiastes 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness …

Ecclesiastes 8:14 There is a vanity which is done on the earth; that there be just …

Ecclesiastes 9:1,2 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that …

1 Samuel 22:18,19 And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. And …

1 Kings 21:13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: …

2 Chronicles 24:21,22 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the …

Job 9:22,23 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the perfect and …

Matthew 23:34,35 Why, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and …

John 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time comes, that …

Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they …

there is a wicked

Ecclesiastes 8:12,13 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, …

Job 21:7-15 Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, are mighty in power…

Psalm 73:3-13 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked…

Isaiah 65:20 There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man that …

Jeremiah 12:1,2 Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk …

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

be not

Proverbs 25:16 Have you found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for you, lest …

Matthew 6:1-7 Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: …

Matthew 9:14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the …

Matthew 15:2 Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for …

Matthew 23:5,23,24,29 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad …

Luke 18:12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

Romans 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according …

Philippians 3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness …

1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats…

neither

Ecclesiastes 12:12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books …

Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that …

Job 11:12 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Job 28:28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; …

Proverbs 23:4 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

Romans 11:25 For I would not, brothers, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, …

Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man that is among …

1 Corinthians 3:18,20 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise …

Colossians 2:18,23 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and …

James 3:13-17 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show …

destroy thyself

Matthew 23:38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

Revelation 18:19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, …

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.
Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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