< Ecclesiastes 7 >
1 A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
pleasant name from oil pleasant and day [the] death from day to beget he
2 It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.
pleasant to/for to go: went to(wards) house: home mourning from to go: went to(wards) house: home feast in/on/with in which he/she/it end all [the] man and [the] alive to give: put to(wards) heart his
3 Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.
pleasant vexation from laughter for in/on/with evil face be good heart
4 The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.
heart wise in/on/with house: home mourning and heart fool in/on/with house: home joy
5 It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.
pleasant to/for to hear: hear rebuke wise from man: anyone to hear: hear song fool
6 Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.
for like/as voice: sound [the] thorn underneath: under [the] pot so laughter [the] fool and also this vanity
7 The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.
for [the] oppression to boast: rave madly wise and to perish [obj] heart gift
8 The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.
pleasant end word: thing from first: beginning his pleasant slow spirit from high spirit
9 Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.
not to dismay in/on/with spirit: temper your to/for to provoke for vexation in/on/with bosom: embrace fool to rest
10 Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.
not to say what? to be which/that [the] day [the] first: previous to be pleasant from these for not from wisdom to ask upon this
11 Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.
pleasant wisdom with inheritance and advantage to/for to see: see [the] sun
12 Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.
for in/on/with shadow [the] wisdom in/on/with shadow [the] silver: money and advantage knowledge [the] wisdom to live master: owning her
13 Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
to see: examine [obj] deed: work [the] God for who? be able to/for be straight [obj] which to pervert him
14 In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.
in/on/with day welfare to be in/on/with good and in/on/with day distress: harm to see: examine also [obj] this to/for close this to make [the] God upon cause which/that not to find [the] man after him anything
15 These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.
[obj] [the] all to see: see in/on/with day vanity my there righteous to perish in/on/with righteousness his and there wicked to prolong in/on/with distress: evil his
16 Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?
not to be righteous to multiply and not be wise advantage to/for what? be desolate: destroyed
17 Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?
not be wicked to multiply and not to be fool to/for what? to die in/on/with not time your
18 It is good to take this in your hand and not to keep your hand from that; he who has the fear of God will be free of the two.
pleasant which to grasp in/on/with this and also from this not to rest [obj] hand your for afraid God to come out: come [obj] all their
19 Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.
[the] wisdom be strong to/for wise from ten domineering which to be in/on/with city
20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
for man nothing righteous in/on/with land: country/planet which to make: do good and not to sin
21 Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.
also to/for all [the] word: thing which to speak: speak not to give: put heart your which not to hear: hear [obj] servant/slave your to lighten you
22 Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.
for also beat many to know heart your which also (you(m. s.) *Q(K)*) to lighten another
23 All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
all this to test in/on/with wisdom to say be wise and he/she/it distant from me
24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?
distant what? which/that to be and deep deep who? to find him
25 I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.
to turn: turn I and heart my to/for to know and to/for to spy and to seek wisdom and explanation and to/for to know wickedness loin and [the] folly madness
26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
and to find I bitter from death [obj] [the] woman which he/she/it net and net heart her bond hand her pleasant to/for face: before [the] God to escape from her and to sin to capture in/on/with her
27 Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,
to see: behold! this to find to say preacher one to/for one to/for to find explanation
28 For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.
which still to seek soul my and not to find man one from thousand to find and woman in/on/with all these not to find
29 This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.
to/for alone to see: behold! this to find which to make [the] God [obj] [the] man upright and they(masc.) to seek invention many