Ecclesiastes 7:9-27

⁹Do not quickly ◄lose your temper/react to things angrily►, because it is foolish people SYN who become very angry.

¹⁰Do not say, “Things were a lot better RHQ previously,” because it is people who are not wise who say that.

¹¹Being wise is better than inheriting valuable things; being wise provides lasting benefits for every person on the earth MTY.

¹²We are sometimes protected by being wise like we are sometimes protected by having a lot of money, but being wise is better than having a lot of money, because being wise prevents us from doing foolish things that would cause us to die.

¹³Think carefully about what God has done. Certainly no one can RHQ cause to become straight the things that God has caused to be crooked.

¹⁴When things are going well for you, be happy, and when things are not going well for you, remember that God is the one who causes good things to happen and who also causes disasters.

¹⁵During all the time that I have been alive I have seen a lot of HYP things that seem senseless. I have seen righteous people die while they are still young, and I have seen wicked people remain alive for a very long time in spite of their continuing to be wicked.

¹⁶So do not think that you are very righteous and do not think that you are very wise, because if you think those things, you will destroy yourself.

¹⁷If you do what is evil or do what is foolish, you might die while you are still young.

¹⁸Continue to avoid doing what is evil and doing what is foolish; avoid doing both of those things by continually revering God.

¹⁹If you are wise, you will be more powerful/influential than the ten most powerful/influential men in your city.

²⁰There is no one in this world who always does what is right and who never sins.

²¹Do not pay attention IDM to everything that people say, because if you do that, you might hear your servant cursing you.

²²You know that you have also cursed other people.

²³I said to myself that I would use my wisdom to study all the things that I have written about, but I was not able to do it successfully.

²⁴Wisdom seems to be far from me; there is no one RHQ who can truly understand everything.

²⁵But I decided to investigate things and by my wisdom try to understand the reason for everything. I also wanted to understand why people act wickedly and why they act very foolishly.

²⁶One thing I learned was that ◄allowing a woman to seduce you/having sex with a woman to whom you are not married► is worse than dying. A woman who tries to seduce men is as dangerous as a trap MET. If you allow her to put her arms around you, it will be as though she will be fastening you with chains. Women like that will capture sinful men, but men who please God will escape from such women.

²⁷This is what I have learned: I tried to learn more and more about things to try to find out the reason for everything,