Day 197 – A Year in the Bible – Ecclesiastes 7-9
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ECCLESIASTES 7 – THE HEART IS WISE IN THE HOUSE OF MOURNING.
A Good Name is Better than Precious Ointment
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth. It 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. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. – Ecclesiastes 7:1-4
Anger Resteth in the Bosom of Fools
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. – Ecclesiastes 7:8-9
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ECCLESIASTES 8 – NO MAN HATH POWER OVERFLOW THE SPIRIT TO RETAIN THE SPIRIT
To Every Purpose There is Time and Judgment
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. – Ecclesiastes 8:6-8
When I Applied Mine Heart to Know Wisdom I Beheld All the Work of God
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. – Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
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ECCLESIASTES 9 – TO HIM THAT IS JOINED TO ALL THE LIVING THERE IS HOPE
The Living Know They Shall Die
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. – Ecclesiastes 9:4-6
The Man Knowest Not His Time
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. – Ecclesiastes 9:11-12
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