{"id":"ECC.7.1","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":1,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:1","text":"A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth."}
{"id":"ECC.7.2","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":2,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:2","text":"¶ 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."}
{"id":"ECC.7.3","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":3,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:3","text":"Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better."}
{"id":"ECC.7.4","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":4,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:4","text":"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."}
{"id":"ECC.7.5","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":5,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:5","text":"It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools."}
{"id":"ECC.7.6","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":6,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:6","text":"For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity."}
{"id":"ECC.7.7","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":7,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:7","text":"¶ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart."}
{"id":"ECC.7.8","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":8,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:8","text":"Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit."}
{"id":"ECC.7.9","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":9,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:9","text":"Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools."}
{"id":"ECC.7.10","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":10,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:10","text":"Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this."}
{"id":"ECC.7.11","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":11,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:11","text":"¶ Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun."}
{"id":"ECC.7.12","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":12,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:12","text":"For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it."}
{"id":"ECC.7.13","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":13,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:13","text":"Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?"}
{"id":"ECC.7.14","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":14,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:14","text":"In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him."}
{"id":"ECC.7.15","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":15,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:15","text":"All things have I 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."}
{"id":"ECC.7.16","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":16,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:16","text":"Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?"}
{"id":"ECC.7.17","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":17,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:17","text":"Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?"}
{"id":"ECC.7.18","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":18,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:18","text":"It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all."}
{"id":"ECC.7.19","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":19,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:19","text":"Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city."}
{"id":"ECC.7.20","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":20,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:20","text":"For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not."}
{"id":"ECC.7.21","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":21,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:21","text":"Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:"}
{"id":"ECC.7.22","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":22,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:22","text":"For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others."}
{"id":"ECC.7.23","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":23,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:23","text":"¶ All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me."}
{"id":"ECC.7.24","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":24,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:24","text":"That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?"}
{"id":"ECC.7.25","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":25,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:25","text":"I 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:"}
{"id":"ECC.7.26","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":26,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:26","text":"And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her."}
{"id":"ECC.7.27","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":27,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:27","text":"Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:"}
{"id":"ECC.7.28","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":28,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:28","text":"Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found."}
{"id":"ECC.7.29","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"ECC","book":"Ecclesiastes","chapter":7,"verse":29,"reference":"Ecclesiastes 7:29","text":"Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions."}