NITHYAM SONGSEcclesiastes 7
World English Bible (WEB) • 29 verses
1A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.
RelatedRevelation 14:13 · Proverbs 22:1 · Ecclesiastes 4:2 · 2 Corinthians 5:8 · 2 Corinthians 5:1 · Philippians 1:21-23
2It 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 should take this to heart.
RelatedPsalms 90:12 · Hebrews 9:27 · Deuteronomy 32:29 · Deuteronomy 32:46 · Philippians 3:19 · Haggai 1:5
3Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
Related2 Corinthians 7:9-11 · Romans 5:3-4 · James 4:8-10 · John 16:20-22 · James 1:2-4 · Jeremiah 31:15-20
4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
5It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.
RelatedProverbs 15:31-32 · Psalms 141:5 · Revelation 3:19 · Proverbs 17:10 · Proverbs 13:18 · Proverbs 9:8
6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
7Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.
RelatedDeuteronomy 16:19 · Exodus 23:8 · Proverbs 17:23 · Proverbs 17:8 · 1 Samuel 8:3 · Deuteronomy 28:33-34
8Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
9Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
RelatedJames 1:19 · Proverbs 14:17 · Proverbs 16:32 · Ephesians 4:26-27 · Proverbs 26:23-26 · Esther 3:5-6
10Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.
RelatedPsalms 14:2-3 · Genesis 6:11-12 · Isaiah 50:1 · Romans 1:22-32 · Judges 6:13 · Jeremiah 44:17-19
11Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
RelatedEcclesiastes 11:7 · 1 Timothy 6:17-19 · Proverbs 8:10-11 · Ecclesiastes 2:13 · Luke 16:8-9 · 1 Kings 3:6-9
12For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
13Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?
RelatedEcclesiastes 1:15 · Job 12:14 · Psalms 107:43 · Ecclesiastes 3:11 · Isaiah 5:12 · Isaiah 14:27
14In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
RelatedEcclesiastes 3:4 · Ecclesiastes 3:22 · Ecclesiastes 12:13 · Deuteronomy 8:3 · James 5:13 · Deuteronomy 28:47
15All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
RelatedEcclesiastes 8:12-14 · Ecclesiastes 6:12 · Matthew 23:34-35 · Psalms 73:3-13 · Ecclesiastes 9:1-2 · Job 9:22-23
16Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
RelatedRomans 12:3 · Proverbs 25:16 · Colossians 2:18 · 1 Corinthians 3:18 · James 3:13-17 · Matthew 6:1-7
17Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
18It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.
RelatedEcclesiastes 8:12 · Malachi 4:2 · Ecclesiastes 12:13 · Ecclesiastes 11:6 · Luke 1:50 · Luke 11:42
19Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
RelatedColossians 1:9-11 · Proverbs 21:22 · Ecclesiastes 9:13-18 · Proverbs 24:5 · 2 Samuel 20:16-22
20Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.
21Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;
22for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.
23All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.
24That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
25I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
RelatedEcclesiastes 10:13 · Joshua 7:13 · Ecclesiastes 2:15 · Proverbs 26:11 · Ecclesiastes 2:20 · 2 Peter 2:3-9
26I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
RelatedProverbs 22:14 · Proverbs 5:3-5 · Proverbs 2:16 · Ecclesiastes 2:26 · Proverbs 2:18-19 · Proverbs 7:21-27
27“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find an explanation
28which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.
29Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.”
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.