- 1. Better `is' a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.
- 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.
- 3. Better `is' sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.
- 4. The heart of the wise `is' in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.
- 5. Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than `for' a man to hear a song of fools,
- 6. For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So `is' the laughter of a fool, even this `is' vanity.
- 7. Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart.
- 8. Better `is' the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better `is' the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.
- 9. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.
- 10. Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.
- 11. Wisdom `is' good with an inheritance, And an advantage `it is' to those beholding the sun.
- 12. For wisdom `is' a defense, money `is' a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom `is', She reviveth her possessors.
- 13. See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?
- 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.
- 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.
- 16. Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise, why art thou desolate?
- 17. Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?
- 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.
- 19. The wisdom giveth strength to a wise man, more than wealth the rulers who have been in a city.
- 20. Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.
- 21. Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.
- 22. For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.
- 23. All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, `I am wise,' and it `is' far from me.
- 24. Far off `is' that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?
- 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.
- 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.
- 27. See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason
- 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.
- 29. See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices.
Ничего нет для сопоставления.
