Ecclesiastes 7
1 pleasant name from oil pleasant and day [the] death from day to beget he
A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
2 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
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
3 pleasant vexation from laughter for in/on/with evil face be good heart
Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.
4 heart wise in/on/with house: home mourning and heart fool in/on/with house: home joy
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
5 pleasant to/for to hear: hear rebuke wise from man: anyone to hear: hear song fool
It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools.
6 for like/as voice: sound [the] thorn underneath: under [the] pot so laughter [the] fool and also this vanity
For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
7 for [the] oppression to boast: rave madly wise and to perish [obj] heart gift
Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
8 pleasant end word: thing from first: beginning his pleasant slow spirit from high spirit
The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.
9 not to dismay in/on/with spirit: temper your to/for to provoke for vexation in/on/with bosom: embrace fool to rest
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
10 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
Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is unwise of you to ask about this.
11 pleasant wisdom with inheritance and advantage to/for to see: see [the] sun
Wisdom, like an inheritance, is good, and it benefits those who see the sun.
12 for in/on/with shadow [the] wisdom in/on/with shadow [the] silver: money and advantage knowledge [the] wisdom to live master: owning her
For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
13 to see: examine [obj] deed: work [the] God for who? be able to/for be straight [obj] which to pervert him
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
14 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
In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
15 [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
In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
16 not to be righteous to multiply and not be wise advantage to/for what? be desolate: destroyed
Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
17 not be wicked to multiply and not to be fool to/for what? to die in/on/with not time your
Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
18 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
It is good to grasp the one and not let the other slip from your hand. For he who fears God will follow both warnings.
19 [the] wisdom be strong to/for wise from ten domineering which to be in/on/with city
Wisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers in a city.
20 for man nothing righteous in/on/with land: country/planet which to make: do good and not to sin
Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
21 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
Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.
22 for also beat many to know heart your which also (you(m. s.) *Q(K)*) to lighten another
For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.
23 all this to test in/on/with wisdom to say be wise and he/she/it distant from me
All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.
24 distant what? which/that to be and deep deep who? to find him
What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?
25 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
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
26 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
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
27 to see: behold! this to find to say preacher one to/for one to/for to find explanation
“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
28 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
While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
29 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
Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
