A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth. Rev 14:13Pro 22:1Ecc 4:22Co 5:82Co 5:1Php 1:21-23Pro 27:9Sng 1:3
¶ It is better to go to the house of 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. Psa 90:12Deu 32:29Heb 9:27Deu 32:461Pe 4:3-4Hag 1:5Php 3:19Amo 6:3-6 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. 1 2Co 7:9-11Rom 5:3-4Jas 4:8-10Jhn 16:20-222Co 4:17Heb 12:10-11Jas 1:2-4Jer 31:15-20 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Mat 8:14-161Sa 25:36Luk 7:12-131Ki 20:161Sa 30:16Dan 5:1-4Dan 5:30Hos 7:5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. Pro 15:31-32Psa 141:5Rev 3:19Pro 13:18Pro 17:10Pro 9:8Pro 27:6Pro 13:13 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. 2 Psa 118:12Psa 58:9Ecc 2:2Luk 6:252Pe 2:13-17Amo 8:10Isa 65:13-15Jud 1:12-13
¶ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. Deu 16:19Exo 23:8Pro 17:231Sa 8:3Deu 28:33-34Deu 28:65Ecc 4:1Isa 1:23 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Heb 10:36Psa 126:5-6Pro 14:291Pe 1:13Jas 5:11Jas 5:8Pro 15:18Gal 5:22 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Jas 1:19Pro 14:17Pro 16:32Eph 4:26-27Pro 26:23-261Sa 25:21-222Sa 13:222Sa 19:43 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. 3 Psa 14:2-3Gen 6:11-12Isa 50:1Jdg 6:13Rom 1:22-32Jer 44:17-19Rom 3:9-19
¶ Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 4 Ecc 11:71Ti 6:17-19Ecc 2:13Pro 8:10-111Ki 3:6-9Ecc 9:15-18Luk 16:8-9 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. 5 Pro 8:35Pro 2:7Pro 3:18Jdg 9:15Jhn 12:50Jhn 17:3Pro 11:4Pro 18:10-11 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? Ecc 1:15Job 12:14Psa 107:43Ecc 3:11Isa 14:27Isa 5:12Eph 1:11Rom 9:15 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. 6 Ecc 3:4Ecc 3:22Deu 8:3Ecc 12:13Jas 5:13Deu 28:47Isa 26:111Ki 17:17-18 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness. Ecc 8:12-14Ecc 6:12Mat 23:34-35Psa 73:3-13Ecc 9:1-21Ki 21:131Sa 22:18-192Ch 24:21-22 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? 7 Rom 12:3Pro 25:16Col 2:181Co 3:18Jas 3:13-17Mat 6:1-7Ecc 12:12Gen 3:6 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? 8 Pro 10:27Job 22:16Psa 55:23Act 12:23Act 5:10Act 5:51Sa 25:38Gen 38:7-10 It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all. Ecc 12:13Ecc 8:12Mal 4:2Ecc 11:6Luk 1:50Luk 11:42Ecc 3:14Jer 32:40 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city. Col 1:9-11Pro 21:22Ecc 9:13-18Pro 24:52Sa 20:16-22 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Rom 3:23Isa 53:61Jn 1:8-10Jas 3:2Pro 20:91Ki 8:46Job 15:14-16Isa 64:6 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: 9 Pro 30:10Isa 29:212Sa 16:101Co 13:5-72Sa 19:19 For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. Jas 3:91Ki 2:44Jhn 8:7-9Mat 15:19Mat 18:32-35
¶ All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. Rom 1:221Co 1:20Gen 3:51Ki 11:1-81Ki 3:11-12 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? Rom 11:331Ti 6:16Isa 55:8-9Job 28:28Psa 139:6Job 11:7-8Job 28:12-23Psa 36:6 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: 10 Ecc 10:13Jos 7:132Pe 2:3-92Pe 3:3-92Sa 13:12Ecc 1:13-17Ecc 2:1-3Ecc 2:12 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. 11 Pro 22:14Pro 5:3-5Pro 2:16Ecc 2:26Pro 2:18-19Pro 23:27-28Pro 7:21-27Jdg 16:18-21 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: 12 Ecc 12:8-10Ecc 1:1-2 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. Job 33:23Psa 12:11Ki 11:1-3Ecc 7:23-24Isa 26:9 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Jer 4:22Gen 6:11-12Mrk 7:8-9Gen 5:1Tit 3:3Eph 2:2-3Gen 1:26-27Gen 3:6-7