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 ¹ A good name is better than fine perfume,
       and the day of death better than the day of birth.

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 ² It is better to go to a house of mourning
       than to go to a house of feasting,
       for death is the destiny of every man;
       the living should take this to heart.

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 ³ Sorrow is better than laughter,
       because a sad face is good for the heart.

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 ⁴ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
       but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

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 ⁵ It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke
       than to listen to the song of fools.

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 ⁶ Like the crackling of thorns under the pot,
       so is the laughter of fools.
       This too is meaningless.

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 ⁷ Extortion turns a wise man into a fool,
       and a bribe corrupts the heart.

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 ⁸ The end of a matter is better than its beginning,
       and patience is better than pride.

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 ⁹ Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit,
       for anger resides in the lap of fools.

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 ¹⁰ Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?”
       For it is not wise to ask such questions.

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 ¹¹ Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing
       and benefits those who see the sun.

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 ¹² Wisdom is a shelter
       as money is a shelter,
       but the advantage of knowledge is this:
       that wisdom preserves the life of its possessor.

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 ¹³ Consider what God has done:
       Who can straighten
       what he has made crooked?

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 ¹⁴ When times are good, be happy;
       but when times are bad, consider:
       God has made the one
       as well as the other.
       Therefore, a man cannot discover
       anything about his future.

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 ¹⁵ In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these:
       a righteous man perishing in his righteousness,
       and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.

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 ¹⁶ Do not be overrighteous,
       neither be overwise—
       why destroy yourself?

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 ¹⁷ Do not be overwicked,
       and do not be a fool—
       why die before your time?

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 ¹⁸ It is good to grasp the one
       and not let go of the other.
       The man who fears God will avoid all extremes .

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 ¹⁹ Wisdom makes one wise man more powerful
       than ten rulers in a city.

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 ²⁰ There is not a righteous man on earth
       who does what is right and never sins.

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 ²¹ Do not pay attention to every word people say,
       or you may hear your servant cursing you-

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 ²² for you know in your heart
       that many times you yourself have cursed others.

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 ²³ All this I tested by wisdom and I said,
       “I am determined to be wise”—
       but this was beyond me.

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 ²⁴ Whatever wisdom may be,
       it is far off and most profound—
       who can discover it?

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 ²⁵ So I turned my mind to understand,
       to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things
       and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
       and the madness of folly.

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 ²⁶ I find more bitter than death
       the woman who is a snare,
       whose heart is a trap
       and whose hands are chains.
       The man who pleases God will escape her,
       but the sinner she will ensnare.

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 ²⁷ “Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered:
       “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things-

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 ²⁸ while I was still searching
       but not finding—
       I found one upright man among a thousand,
       but not one upright woman among them all.

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 ²⁹ This only have I found:
       God made mankind upright,
       but men have gone in search of many schemes.”

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