1What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?

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Revelation 14:13, Proverbs 22:1, Revelation 14:13, Proverbs 22:1, Ecclesiastes 4:2

2A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

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Psalms 90:12, Psalms 90:12, Deuteronomy 32:29, Deuteronomy 32:29, Deuteronomy 32:46

3It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.

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2 Corinthians 7:9, 2 Corinthians 7:11, 2 Corinthians 7:9, 2 Corinthians 7:11, Romans 5:3

4Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the countenance the mind of the offender is corrected.

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Luke 7:12, Luke 7:13, Matthew 8:14, Matthew 8:16, Luke 7:12

5The heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of fools where there is mirth.

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Proverbs 15:31, Proverbs 15:32, Proverbs 15:31, Proverbs 15:32, Psalms 141:5

6It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattery of fools.

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Psalms 118:12, Psalms 58:9, Psalms 118:12, Psalms 58:9, Ecclesiastes 2:2

7For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.

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Deuteronomy 16:19, Deuteronomy 16:19, Exodus 23:8, Exodus 23:8, Proverbs 17:23

8Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart.

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Hebrews 10:36, Hebrews 10:36, Proverbs 14:29, Proverbs 14:29, 1 Peter 1:13

9Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.

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James 1:19, James 1:19, Proverbs 14:17, Proverbs 14:17, Ephesians 4:26

10Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.

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Judges 6:13, Judges 6:13, Genesis 6:11, Genesis 6:12, Romans 1:22

11Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.

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Ecclesiastes 11:7, Ecclesiastes 11:7, 1 Timothy 6:17, 1 Timothy 6:19, 1 Timothy 6:17

12Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun.

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Proverbs 3:18, Proverbs 8:35, Proverbs 2:7, Proverbs 3:18, Proverbs 8:35

13For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them.

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Ecclesiastes 1:15, Ecclesiastes 1:15, Job 12:14, Job 12:14, Isaiah 5:12

14Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.

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Ecclesiastes 3:22, Ecclesiastes 3:4, Ecclesiastes 3:22, Ecclesiastes 3:4, Ecclesiastes 12:13

15In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.

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Ecclesiastes 8:12, Ecclesiastes 8:14, Ecclesiastes 8:12, Ecclesiastes 8:14, Ecclesiastes 6:12

16These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness.

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Romans 12:3, Romans 12:3, Proverbs 25:16, Proverbs 25:16, Colossians 2:18

17Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest thou become stupid.

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Proverbs 10:27, Proverbs 10:27, Job 22:16, Psalms 55:23, Job 22:16

18Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before thy time.

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Ecclesiastes 12:13, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Ecclesiastes 11:6, Luke 11:42, Malachi 4:2

19It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing.

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Proverbs 21:22, Colossians 1:9, Colossians 1:11, Proverbs 21:22, Colossians 1:9

20Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city.

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Romans 3:23, Romans 3:23, Isaiah 53:6, Isaiah 53:6, James 3:2

21For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

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Proverbs 30:10, Proverbs 30:10, Isaiah 29:21, Isaiah 29:21, 2 Samuel 16:10

22But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.

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1 Kings 2:44, Matthew 18:32, Matthew 18:35, John 8:7, John 8:9

23For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others.

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Romans 1:22, Romans 1:22, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Kings 3:11

24I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me,

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Romans 11:33, Romans 11:33, Isaiah 55:8, Isaiah 55:9, 1 Timothy 6:16

25Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?

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Ecclesiastes 10:13, Ecclesiastes 10:13, 2 Peter 3:3, 2 Peter 3:9, Joshua 7:13

26I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:

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Proverbs 22:14, Proverbs 22:14, Proverbs 5:3, Proverbs 5:5, Proverbs 5:3

27And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

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Ecclesiastes 12:8, Ecclesiastes 12:10, Ecclesiastes 12:8, Ecclesiastes 12:10, Ecclesiastes 1:1

28Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,

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1 Kings 11:1, 1 Kings 11:3, Job 33:23, 1 Kings 11:1, 1 Kings 11:3

29Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.

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Jeremiah 4:22, Jeremiah 4:22, Titus 3:3, Titus 3:3, Genesis 1:26

30Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?

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