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Ecclesiastes Chapter 7

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Ecclesiastes

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In this chapter the author reflects on the futility of seeking wisdom without understanding, warning that many pursue knowledge for its own sake and become proud. He contrasts the fleeting joy of the wise with the inevitable loss of all things, urging that one should not be deceived by the appearance of wisdom. The chapter ends with a reminder that the fear of the wise is a trap.

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(1) A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
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Proverbs 15:30Proverbs 22:1Isaiah 56:5Luke 10:20Hebrews 11:2Hebrews 11:39Ecclesiastes 10:1Psalms 133:2Proverbs 27:9Song of Solomon 1:3Song of Solomon 4:10John 13:2

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II Kings 20:13Isaiah 39:2

(2) 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.
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Genesis 48:1Genesis 48:2Genesis 48:3Genesis 48:4Genesis 48:5Genesis 48:6Genesis 48:7Genesis 48:8Genesis 48:9Genesis 48:10Genesis 48:11Genesis 48:12

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Ecclesiastes 9:4Ecclesiastes 7:8Amos 8:10

(3) Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
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Psalms 119:67Psalms 119:71Psalms 126:5Psalms 126:6Jeremiah 31:8Jeremiah 31:9Jeremiah 31:15Jeremiah 31:16Jeremiah 31:17Jeremiah 31:18Jeremiah 31:19Jeremiah 31:20

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Ecclesiastes 7:8Hebrews 8:6

(4) The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
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Nehemiah 2:2Nehemiah 2:3Nehemiah 2:4Nehemiah 2:5Isaiah 53:3Isaiah 53:4Matthew 8:14Matthew 8:15Matthew 8:16Mark 5:38Mark 5:39Mark 5:40

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Proverbs 13:20Isaiah 19:11

(5) It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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Psalms 141:5Proverbs 9:8Proverbs 13:13Proverbs 15:31Proverbs 15:32Proverbs 17:10Proverbs 27:6Revelation 3:19Psalms 69:12

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Proverbs 13:20Isaiah 19:11

(6) For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 2:2Psalms 58:9Psalms 118:12Isaiah 65:13Isaiah 65:14Isaiah 65:15Amos 8:10Luke 6:25Luke 16:25II Peter 2:13II Peter 2:14II Peter 2:15

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Ecclesiastes 1:2

(7) Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
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Deuteronomy 28:33Deuteronomy 28:34Deuteronomy 28:65Exodus 23:8Deuteronomy 16:19I Samuel 8:3I Samuel 12:3Proverbs 17:23Isaiah 1:23Isaiah 33:15

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Isaiah 44:25Isaiah 19:11Jeremiah 44:25Exodus 23:8Deuteronomy 16:19

(8) Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
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Psalms 126:5Psalms 126:6Isaiah 10:24Isaiah 10:25Isaiah 10:28Isaiah 10:29Isaiah 10:30Isaiah 10:31Isaiah 10:32Isaiah 10:33Isaiah 10:34Luke 16:25

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Ecclesiastes 7:3Hebrews 8:6Ecclesiastes 7:2Proverbs 16:19

(9) Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
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I Samuel 25:21I Samuel 25:22II Samuel 19:43Esther 3:5Esther 3:6Proverbs 14:17Proverbs 16:32Jonah 4:9Ephesians 4:26Ephesians 4:27James 1:19Genesis 4:5

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Exodus 4:7

(10) Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
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Judges 6:13Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 44:18Jeremiah 44:19Genesis 6:11Genesis 6:12Psalms 14:2Psalms 14:3Isaiah 50:1Romans 1:22Romans 1:23Romans 1:24

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Ruth 4:7II Kings 22:13Ezekiel 16:55

(11) Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 9:15Ecclesiastes 9:16Ecclesiastes 9:17Ecclesiastes 9:18I Kings 3:6I Kings 3:7I Kings 3:8I Kings 3:9Luke 16:8Luke 16:9I Timothy 6:17I Timothy 6:18

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Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Numbers 26:54Joshua 19:9I Kings 4:30

(12) 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.
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Job 1:10Job 22:21Job 22:22Job 22:23Job 22:24Job 22:25Proverbs 2:7Proverbs 2:11Proverbs 14:20Proverbs 18:10Proverbs 18:11Isaiah 33:6

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I Kings 4:30Ecclesiastes 1:16Ecclesiastes 2:26Proverbs 2:6Daniel 2:21II Kings 12:4

(13) Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
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Job 37:14Psalms 8:3Psalms 107:43Isaiah 5:12Ecclesiastes 1:15Job 9:12Job 11:10Job 12:14Job 34:29Isaiah 14:27Isaiah 43:13Isaiah 46:10

(14) 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.
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Ecclesiastes 3:4Deuteronomy 28:47Psalms 30:11Psalms 30:12Psalms 40:3Matthew 9:13John 16:22John 16:23James 5:13Deuteronomy 8:3I Kings 8:47I Kings 17:17

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Ecclesiastes 8:17

(15) 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.
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Ecclesiastes 2:23Ecclesiastes 5:16Ecclesiastes 5:17Ecclesiastes 6:12Genesis 47:9Psalms 39:6Ecclesiastes 3:16Ecclesiastes 8:14Ecclesiastes 9:1Ecclesiastes 9:2I Samuel 22:18I Samuel 22:19

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Jeremiah 44:9Ezekiel 33:12Leviticus 19:36Ecclesiastes 8:14Ezekiel 45:10Romans 9:30

(16) Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
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Proverbs 25:16Matthew 6:1Matthew 6:2Matthew 6:3Matthew 6:4Matthew 6:5Matthew 6:6Matthew 6:7Matthew 9:14Matthew 15:2Matthew 15:3Matthew 15:4

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Daniel 2:24Revelation 11:18II Kings 14:10II Chronicles 25:16II Chronicles 25:19Obadiah 1:12

(17) Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
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Jeremiah 2:33Jeremiah 2:34Ezekiel 8:17Ezekiel 16:20James 1:21Genesis 38:7Genesis 38:8Genesis 38:9Genesis 38:10I Samuel 25:38Job 15:32Job 15:33

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Deuteronomy 5:25II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8II Kings 14:10II Chronicles 25:19

(18) 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.
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Ecclesiastes 11:6Proverbs 4:25Proverbs 4:26Proverbs 4:27Proverbs 8:20Luke 11:42Ecclesiastes 8:12Ecclesiastes 12:13Psalms 25:12Psalms 25:13Psalms 25:14Psalms 145:19

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Obadiah 1:12

(19) Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
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Ecclesiastes 9:15Ecclesiastes 9:16Ecclesiastes 9:17Ecclesiastes 9:18II Samuel 20:16II Samuel 20:17II Samuel 20:18II Samuel 20:19II Samuel 20:20II Samuel 20:21II Samuel 20:22Proverbs 21:22

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Jeremiah 9:23Job 36:5I Kings 4:30

(20) For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
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I Kings 8:46II Chronicles 6:36Job 15:14Job 15:15Job 15:16Psalms 130:3Psalms 143:2Proverbs 20:9Isaiah 53:6Romans 3:23James 3:2I John 1:8

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Leviticus 19:36Ezekiel 45:10

(21) Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
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II Samuel 19:19II Samuel 16:10Isaiah 29:21I Corinthians 13:5I Corinthians 13:6I Corinthians 13:7

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Exodus 34:12Deuteronomy 4:9

(22) For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
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I Kings 2:44Matthew 15:19Matthew 18:32Matthew 18:33Matthew 18:34Matthew 18:35John 8:7John 8:8John 8:9James 3:9

(23) All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
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Genesis 3:5I Kings 3:11I Kings 3:12I Kings 11:1I Kings 11:2I Kings 11:3I Kings 11:4I Kings 11:5I Kings 11:6I Kings 11:7I Kings 11:8Romans 1:22

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I Kings 4:30

(24) That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
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Deuteronomy 30:11Deuteronomy 30:12Deuteronomy 30:13Deuteronomy 30:14Job 11:7Job 11:8Job 28:12Job 28:13Job 28:14Job 28:15Job 28:16Job 28:17

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Ecclesiastes 8:17

(25) 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:
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Ecclesiastes 1:13Ecclesiastes 1:14Ecclesiastes 1:15Ecclesiastes 1:16Ecclesiastes 1:17Ecclesiastes 2:1Ecclesiastes 2:2Ecclesiastes 2:3Ecclesiastes 2:12Ecclesiastes 2:20Ecclesiastes 7:27Ecclesiastes 2:15

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Jeremiah 44:9Ecclesiastes 1:17Ecclesiastes 2:12Ecclesiastes 1:13Zephaniah 2:3I Kings 4:30

(26) 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.
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Judges 16:18Judges 16:19Judges 16:20Judges 16:21Proverbs 2:18Proverbs 2:19Proverbs 5:3Proverbs 5:4Proverbs 5:5Proverbs 7:21Proverbs 7:22Proverbs 7:23

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II Kings 24:2I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19Ecclesiastes 8:17

(27) Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
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Ecclesiastes 1:1Ecclesiastes 1:2Ecclesiastes 12:8Ecclesiastes 12:9Ecclesiastes 12:10

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Ecclesiastes 8:17

(28) 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.
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Ecclesiastes 7:23Ecclesiastes 7:24Isaiah 26:9Job 33:23Psalms 12:1I Kings 11:1I Kings 11:2I Kings 11:3

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Ecclesiastes 8:17

(29) Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
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Genesis 1:26Genesis 1:27Genesis 5:1Genesis 3:6Genesis 3:7Genesis 6:5Genesis 6:6Genesis 6:11Genesis 6:12Genesis 11:4Genesis 11:5Genesis 11:6

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