A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better 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 should take this to 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 face the heart is made good. 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. Psa 118:12Psa 58:9Ecc 2:2Luk 6:252Pe 2:13-17Amo 8:10Isa 65:13-15Jud 1:12-13 Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding. 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 its beginning. Heb 10:36Psa 126:5-6Pro 14:291Pe 1:13Jas 5:11Jas 5:8Pro 15:18Gal 5:22
The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests 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 Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this. Psa 14:2-3Gen 6:11-12Isa 50:1Jdg 6:13Rom 1:22-32Jer 44:17-19Rom 3:9-19
Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun. Ecc 11:71Ti 6:17-19Ecc 2:13Pro 8:10-111Ki 3:6-9Ecc 9:15-18Luk 16:8-9 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it. 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 has 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, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him. Ecc 3:4Ecc 3:22Deu 8:3Ecc 12:13Jas 5:13Deu 28:47Isa 26:111Ki 17:17-18
All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing. Ecc 8:12-14Ecc 6:12Mat 23:34-35Psa 73:3-13Ecc 9:1-21Ki 21:131Sa 22:18-192Ch 24:21-22 Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself? Rom 12:3Pro 25:16Col 2:181Co 3:18Jas 3:13-17Mat 6:1-7Ecc 12:12Gen 3:6 Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time? Pro 10:27Job 22:16Psa 55:23Act 12:23Act 5:10Act 5:51Sa 25:38Gen 38:7-10 It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all. Ecc 12:13Ecc 8:12Mal 4:2Ecc 11:6Luk 1:50Luk 11:42Ecc 3:14Jer 32:40 Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city. Col 1:9-11Pro 21:22Ecc 9:13-18Pro 24:52Sa 20:16-22 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin. Rom 3:23Isa 53:61Jn 1:8-10Jas 3:2Pro 20:91Ki 8:46Job 15:14-16Isa 64:6 Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you; Pro 30:10Isa 29:212Sa 16:101Co 13:5-72Sa 19:19 for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others. Jas 3:91Ki 2:44Jhn 8:7-9Mat 15:19Mat 18:32-35 All this I have proved in 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, is far off and exceedingly 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 turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness. Ecc 10:13Jos 7:132Pe 2:3-92Pe 3:3-92Sa 13:12Ecc 1:13-17Ecc 2:1-3Ecc 2:12
I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her. Pro 22:14Pro 5:3-5Pro 2:16Ecc 2:26Pro 2:18-19Pro 23:27-28Pro 7:21-27Jdg 16:18-21
“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find an explanation Ecc 12:8-10Ecc 1:1-2 which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those. Job 33:23Psa 12:11Ki 11:1-3Ecc 7:23-24Isa 26:9 Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.” Jer 4:22Gen 6:11-12Mrk 7:8-9Gen 5:1Tit 3:3Eph 2:2-3Gen 1:26-27Gen 3:6-7