1Surely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14For man shall rest in the shadowe of wisedome, and in the shadowe of siluer: but the excellencie of the knowledge of wisedome giueth life to the possessers thereof.

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

15Beholde the worke of God: for who can make straight that which he hath made crooked?

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

16In the day of wealth be of good comfort, and in the day of affliction consider: God also hath made this contrary to that, to the intent that man shoulde finde nothing after him.

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

17I haue seene all things in the dayes of my vanitie: there is a iust man that perisheth in his iustice, and there is a wicked man that continueth long in his malice.

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

18Be not thou iust ouermuch, neither make thy selfe ouerwise: wherefore shouldest thou be desolate?

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

19Be not thou wicked ouermuch, neither be thou foolish: wherefore shouldest thou perish not in thy time?

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

20It is good that thou lay hold on this: but yet withdrawe not thine hand from that: for he that feareth God, shall come forth of them all.

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

21Wisedome shall strengthen the wise man more then ten mightie princes that are in ye citie.

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

22Surely there is no man iust in the earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.

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

23Giue not thine heart also to all ye wordes that men speake, lest thou doe heare thy seruant cursing thee.

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

24For often times also thine heart knoweth that thou likewise hast cursed others.

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

25All this haue I prooued by wisedome: I thought I will be wise, but it went farre from me.

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

26It is farre off, what may it be? and it is a profound deepenesse, who can finde it?

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

27I haue compassed about, both I and mine heart to knowe and to enquire and to search wisedome, and reason, and to knowe the wickednesse of follie, and the foolishnesse of madnesse,

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

28And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nettes and snares, and her handes, as bands: he that is good before God, shalbe deliuered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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

29Beholde, sayth the Preacher, this haue I found, seeking one by one to finde the count: And yet my soule seeketh, but I finde it not: I haue found one man of a thousand: but a woman among them all haue I not founde. Onely loe, this haue I founde, that God hath made man righteous: but they haue sought many inuentions.

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