Ecclesiastes 7
1 pleasant name from oil pleasant and day [the] death from day to beget he
A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one’s 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 go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.
3 pleasant vexation from laughter for in/on/with evil face be good heart
Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the countenance the mind of the offender is corrected.
4 heart wise in/on/with house: home mourning and heart fool in/on/with house: home joy
The heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of fools where there is mirth.
5 pleasant to/for to hear: hear rebuke wise from man: anyone to hear: hear song fool
It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattery of fools.
6 for like/as voice: sound [the] thorn underneath: under [the] pot so laughter [the] fool and also this vanity
For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.
7 for [the] oppression to boast: rave madly wise and to perish [obj] heart gift
Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart.
8 pleasant end word: thing from first: beginning his pleasant slow spirit from high spirit
Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.
9 not to dismay in/on/with spirit: temper your to/for to provoke for vexation in/on/with bosom: embrace fool to rest
Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom 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
Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.
11 pleasant wisdom with inheritance and advantage to/for to see: see [the] sun
Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that 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 as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them.
13 to see: examine [obj] deed: work [the] God for who? be able to/for be straight [obj] which to pervert him
Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.
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 good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.
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
These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness.
16 not to be righteous to multiply and not be wise advantage to/for what? be desolate: destroyed
Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest thou become stupid.
17 not be wicked to multiply and not to be fool to/for what? to die in/on/with not time your
Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before thy 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 that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing.
19 [the] wisdom be strong to/for wise from ten domineering which to be in/on/with city
Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city.
20 for man nothing righteous in/on/with land: country/planet which to make: do good and not to sin
For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.
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
But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.
22 for also beat many to know heart your which also (you(m. s.) *Q(K)*) to lighten another
For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others.
23 all this to test in/on/with wisdom to say be wise and he/she/it distant from me
I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me,
24 distant what? which/that to be and deep deep who? to find him
Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?
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 have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:
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 have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter’s snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.
27 to see: behold! this to find to say preacher one to/for one to/for to find explanation
Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,
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
Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.
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 I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?
