Ecclesiastes 7

Question 1

Ecclesiastes 7:1

Answer 1

A good name is better than precious ointment,
and the day of death than the day of birth

Question 2

Ecclesiastes 7:2

Answer 2

It is better to go to the house of mourning
than to go to the house of feasting,
for this is the end of all mankind,
and the living will lay it to heart

Question 3

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Answer 3

Sorrow is better than laughter,

for by sadness of face the heart is made glad

Question 4

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Answer 4

Surely oppression drives the wise into madness,

and a bribe corrupts the heart

Question 5

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Answer 5

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry,

for anger lodges in the heart of fools

Question 6

Ecclesiastes 7:10

Answer 6

Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this

Question 7

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Answer 7

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins

Question 8

Ecclesiastes 7:21-22

Answer 8

Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.

Question 9

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Answer 9

Consider the work of God:

who can make straight what he has made crooked?

Question 10

Ecclesiastes 7:14

Answer 10

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him

Question 11

Ecclesiastes 7:12

Answer 11

For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money,
and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Question 12

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Answer 12

Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city