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JPS TaNaKH 1917 - Ecclesiastes - Ecclesiastes 7

Ecclesiastes 7:6-16

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6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity.
7Surely oppression turneth a wise man into a fool; and a gift destroyeth the understanding.
8Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
10Say not thou: 'How was it that the former days were better than these?' for it is not out of wisdom that thou inquirest concerning this.
11Wisdom is good with an inheritance, yea, a profit to them that see the sun.
12For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.
13Consider the work of God; for who can make that straight, which He hath made crooked?
14In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God hath made even the one as well as the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity; there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil-doing.
16Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise; why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

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