{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "ecclesiastes", "chapter": 7 }, "data": { "n": 7, "bookSlug": "ecclesiastes", "bookCode": "ECC", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "ECC-7:1", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.1", "text": "A [good] name is better than precious oil; and the day of death, than the day of one`s birth." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "ECC-7:2", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.2", "text": "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." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "ECC-7:3", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.3", "text": "Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "ECC-7:4", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.4", "text": "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "ECC-7:5", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.5", "text": "It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "ECC-7:6", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.6", "text": "For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "ECC-7:7", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.7", "text": "Surely extortion maketh the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroyeth the understanding." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "ECC-7:8", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.8", "text": "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; [and] the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "ECC-7:9", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.9", "text": "Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "ECC-7:10", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.10", "text": "Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "ECC-7:11", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.11", "text": "Wisdom is as good as an inheritance; yea, more excellent is it for them that see the sun." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "ECC-7:12", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.12", "text": "For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "ECC-7:13", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.13", "text": "Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "ECC-7:14", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.14", "text": "In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yea, God hath made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything [that shall be] after him." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "ECC-7:15", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.15", "text": "All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth [his life] in his evil-doing." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "ECC-7:16", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.16", "text": "Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "ECC-7:17", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.17", "text": "Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?" },{ "n": 18, "refId": "ECC-7:18", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.18", "text": "It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth from them all." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "ECC-7:19", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.19", "text": "Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "ECC-7:20", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.20", "text": "Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "ECC-7:21", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.21", "text": "Also take not heed unto all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee;" },{ "n": 22, "refId": "ECC-7:22", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.22", "text": "for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "ECC-7:23", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.23", "text": "All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "ECC-7:24", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.24", "text": "That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who can find it out?" },{ "n": 25, "refId": "ECC-7:25", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.25", "text": "I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "ECC-7:26", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.26", "text": "And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "ECC-7:27", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.27", "text": "Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, [laying] one thing to another, to find out the account;" },{ "n": 28, "refId": "ECC-7:28", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.28", "text": "which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "ECC-7:29", "verseRef": "Eccl.7.29", "text": "Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/ecclesiastes/chapters/7", "book": "/v1/library/books/ecclesiastes/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/ecclesiastes/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }