Ecclesiastes:7:1-8
geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:1 @ A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the day of (note:)He speaks thus after the judgment of the flesh, which thinks death is the end of all evils, or else because this corporal death is the entering into everlasting life.(:note) death than the day of one's birth.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:2 @ [It is] better to go to the house of (note:)Where we may see the hand of God and learn to examine our lives.(:note) 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.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:3 @ {\cf2 (7:5)} Anger is better then laughter: for by a sad looke the heart is made better.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:4 @ {\cf2 (7:6)} The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:5 @ {\cf2 (7:7)} Better it is to heare ye rebuke of a wise man, then that a man should heare the song of fooles.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:6 @ For as the crackling of (note:)Which crackle for a while and profit nothing.(:note) thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:7 @ Surely oppression maketh a wise man (note:)A man that is esteemed wise, when he falls to oppression, becomes like a beast.(:note) mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:8 @ Better [is] the (note:)He notes their lightness who attempt a thing and suddenly leave it off again.(:note) end of a thing than its beginning: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.
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