YLT - Ecclesiastes - 7

7:1  Better is a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.

7:2  Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth it unto his heart.

7:3  Better is sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.

7:4  The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.

7:5  Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than for a man to hear a song of fools,

7:6  For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So is the laughter of a fool, even this is vanity.

7:7  Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart.

7:8  Better is the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better is the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.

7:9  Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

7:10  Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.

7:11  Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And an advantage it is to those beholding the sun.

7:12  For wisdom is a defense, money is a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom is , She reviveth her possessors.

7:13  See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

7:14  In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.

7:15  The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging himself in his wrong.

7:16  Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise, why art thou desolate?

7:17  Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?

7:18  It is good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all.

7:19  The wisdom giveth strength to a wise man, more than wealth the rulers who have been in a city.

7:20  Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

7:21  Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.

7:22  For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.

7:23  All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, `I am wise,' and it is far from me.

7:24  Far off is that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?

7:25  I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

7:26  And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

7:27  See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason

7:28  (that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.

7:29  See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they--they have sought out many devices.