Ecclesiastes 7:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 For who knoweth what is [a]good for man in the life, and in the number of the days of the life of his vanity, seeing he maketh them as a (A)shadow? for who can show unto man what shall be after him under the sun?
3 (B)A good name is better than a good ointment, and the day of [b]death, than the day that one is born.
4 It is better to go to the house of [c]mourning, than to go to the house of feasting, because this is the end of all men: and the living shall lay it to his heart.
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- Ecclesiastes 7:2 There is no state wherein man can live to have perfect quietness in this life.
- Ecclesiastes 7:3 He speaketh thus after the judgment of the flesh, which thinketh death to be the end of all evils, or else, because that this corporal death is the entering into life everlasting.
- Ecclesiastes 7:4 Where we may see the hand of God, and learn to examine our lives.
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