{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/ecclesiastes/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-29T22:38:37.494Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Ecclesiastes","bookSlug":"ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":6,"nextChapter":8,"totalChapters":12,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Better is a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth it unto his heart."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Better is sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than for a man to hear a song of fools,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So is the laughter of a fool, even this is vanity."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Better is the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better is the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Say not thou, 'What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And an advantage it is to those beholding the sun."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For wisdom is a defense, money is a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom is, She reviveth her possessors."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging himself in his wrong."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise, why art thou desolate?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"It is good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"The wisdom giveth strength to a wise man, more than wealth the rulers who have been in a city."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, 'I am wise,' and it is far from me."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Far off is that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"(that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they — they have sought out many devices."}],"citation":{"inline":"Ecclesiastes 7 (YLT)","markdown":"[Ecclesiastes 7](https://primebible.com/ylt/ecclesiastes/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/ecclesiastes/7 (accessed 2026-05-29)."}}