┼├├ 7:1 ┴ GOOD NAME IS BETTER THAN PRECIOUS OINTMENT; AND THE DAY OF DEATH THAN THE DAY OF ONE'S BIRTH.
┼├├ 7:2 ╔T IS BETTER TO GO TO THE HOUSE OF MOURNING, THAN TO GO TO THE HOUSE OF FEASTING: FOR THAT IS THE END OF ALL MEN; AND THE LIVING WILL LAY IT TO HIS HEART.
┼├├ 7:3 ╙ORROW IS BETTER THAN LAUGHTER: FOR BY THE SADNESS OF THE COUNTENANCE THE HEART IS MADE BETTER.
┼├├ 7:4 ╘HE HEART OF THE WISE IS IN THE HOUSE OF MOURNING; BUT THE HEART OF FOOLS IS IN THE HOUSE OF MIRTH.
┼├├ 7:5 ╔T IS BETTER TO HEAR THE REBUKE OF THE WISE, THAN FOR A MAN TO HEAR THE SONG OF FOOLS.
┼├├ 7:6 ╞OR AS THE CRACKLING OF THORNS UNDER A POT, SO IS THE LAUGHTER OF THE FOOL: THIS ALSO IS VANITY.
┼├├ 7:7 ╙URELY OPPRESSION MAKETH A WISE MAN MAD; AND A GIFT DESTROYETH THE HEART.
┼├├ 7:8 ┬ETTER IS THE END OF A THING THAN THE BEGINNING THEREOF: AND THE PATIENT IN SPIRIT IS BETTER THAN THE PROUD IN SPIRIT.
┼├├ 7:9 ┬E NOT HASTY IN THY SPIRIT TO BE ANGRY: FOR ANGER RESTETH IN THE BOSOM OF FOOLS.
┼├├ 7:10 ╙AY NOT THOU, ╫HAT IS THE CAUSE THAT THE FORMER DAYS WERE BETTER THAN THESE? FOR THOU DOST NOT ENQUIRE WISELY CONCERNING THIS.
┼├├ 7:11 ╫ISDOM IS GOOD WITH AN INHERITANCE: AND BY IT THERE IS PROFIT TO THEM THAT SEE THE SUN.
┼├├ 7:12 ╞OR WISDOM IS A DEFENCE, AND MONEY IS A DEFENCE: BUT THE EXCELLENCY OF KNOWLEDGE IS, THAT WISDOM GIVETH LIFE TO THEM THAT HAVE IT.
┼├├ 7:13 ├ONSIDER THE WORK OF ╟OD: FOR WHO CAN MAKE THAT STRAIGHT, WHICH HE HATH MADE CROOKED?
┼├├ 7:14 ╔N THE DAY OF PROSPERITY BE JOYFUL, BUT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY CONSIDER: ╟OD ALSO HATH SET THE ONE OVER AGAINST THE OTHER, TO THE END THAT MAN SHOULD FIND NOTHING AFTER HIM.
┼├├ 7:15 ┴LL THINGS HAVE ╔ SEEN IN THE DAYS OF MY VANITY: THERE IS A JUST MAN THAT PERISHETH IN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THERE IS A WICKED MAN THAT PROLONGETH HIS LIFE IN HIS WICKEDNESS.
┼├├ 7:16 ┬E NOT RIGHTEOUS OVER MUCH; NEITHER MAKE THYSELF OVER WISE: WHY SHOULDEST THOU DESTROY THYSELF ?
┼├├ 7:17 ┬E NOT OVER MUCH WICKED, NEITHER BE THOU FOOLISH: WHY SHOULDEST THOU DIE BEFORE THY TIME?
┼├├ 7:18 ╔T IS GOOD THAT THOU SHOULDEST TAKE HOLD OF THIS; YEA, ALSO FROM THIS WITHDRAW NOT THINE HAND: FOR HE THAT FEARETH ╟OD SHALL COME FORTH OF THEM ALL.
┼├├ 7:19 ╫ISDOM STRENGTHENETH THE WISE MORE THAN TEN MIGHTY MEN WHICH ARE IN THE CITY.
┼├├ 7:20 ╞OR THERE IS NOT A JUST MAN UPON EARTH, THAT DOETH GOOD, AND SINNETH NOT.
┼├├ 7:21 ┴LSO TAKE NO HEED UNTO ALL WORDS THAT ARE SPOKEN; LEST THOU HEAR THY SERVANT CURSE THEE:
┼├├ 7:22 ╞OR OFTENTIMES ALSO THINE OWN HEART KNOWETH THAT THOU THYSELF LIKEWISE HAST CURSED OTHERS.
┼├├ 7:23 ┴LL THIS HAVE ╔ PROVED BY WISDOM: ╔ SAID, ╔ WILL BE WISE; BUT IT WAS FAR FROM ME.
┼├├ 7:24 ╘HAT WHICH IS FAR OFF, AND EXCEEDING DEEP, WHO CAN FIND IT OUT?
┼├├ 7:25 ╔ APPLIED MINE HEART TO KNOW, AND TO SEARCH, AND TO SEEK OUT WISDOM, AND THE REASON OF THINGS, AND TO KNOW THE WICKEDNESS OF FOLLY, EVEN OF FOOLISHNESS AND MADNESS:
┼├├ 7:26 ┴ND ╔ FIND MORE BITTER THAN DEATH THE WOMAN, WHOSE HEART IS SNARES AND NETS, AND HER HANDS AS BANDS: WHOSO PLEASETH ╟OD SHALL ESCAPE FROM HER; BUT THE SINNER SHALL BE TAKEN BY HER.
┼├├ 7:27 ┬EHOLD, THIS HAVE ╔ FOUND, SAITH THE PREACHER, COUNTING ONE BY ONE, TO FIND OUT THE ACCOUNT:
┼├├ 7:28 ╫HICH YET MY SOUL SEEKETH, BUT ╔ FIND NOT: ONE MAN AMONG A THOUSAND HAVE ╔ FOUND; BUT A WOMAN AMONG ALL THOSE HAVE ╔ NOT FOUND.
┼├├ 7:29 ╠O, THIS ONLY HAVE ╔ FOUND, THAT ╟OD HATH MADE MAN UPRIGHT; BUT THEY HAVE SOUGHT OUT MANY INVENTIONS.
