Ecclesiastes 7 (About one half)
A good name is better than fine perfume,
and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
2It is better to enter a house of mourning
than a house of feasting,
since death is the end of every man,
and the living should take this to heart.
3Sorrow is better than laughter,
for a sad countenance is good for the heart.
4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
5It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke
than to listen to the song of fools.
6For like the crackling of thorns under the pot,
so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
7Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool,
and a bribe corrupts the heart.
8The end of a matter is better than the beginning,
and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.
I would wish that, after I post a little of a book here, that you would follow my lead and read before and after what I place here. This way, you garner the context of that book. Context of the bible is what separates what TV or public dissenters shout and what the bible is really about. What we hear is uneducated and rather silly, not to mention, “lazy,” diatribes condemning the bible. All of this that I have heard are shouts of pure ignorance. Ignorance and personality disorders of the highest magnitude. All any of those had to do was simply read God’s word. It seems that few, if any, ever have.
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