Ecclesiastes 7:2-13

²For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?

³A good name is better then a good oyntment, and the day of death, then the day that one is borne.

⁴It is better to goe to the house of mourning, then to goe to the house of feasting, because this is the ende of all men: and the liuing shall lay it to his heart.

⁵Anger is better then laughter: for by a sad looke the heart is made better.

⁶The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.

⁷Better it is to heare ye rebuke of a wise man, then that a man should heare the song of fooles.

⁸For like ye noyse of the thornes vnder the pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.

⁹Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad: and the rewarde destroyeth the heart.

¹⁰The ende of a thing is better then the beginning thereof, and the pacient in spirit is better then the proude in spirit.

¹¹Be not thou of an hastie spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.

¹²Say not thou, Why is it that the former dayes were better then these? for thou doest not enquire wisely of this thing.

¹³Wisedome is good with an inheritance, and excellent to them that see the sunne.