Ecclesiastes 7:15
In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
14Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.
Cross References
1 Samuel 22:18And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell upon the priests and slew in that day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod.
2 Chronicles 24:21And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned him at the king's commandment in the court of the house of the Lord.
Job 21:7Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?
Psalms 39:6Behold thou hast made my days measurable : and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity : every man living.
Ecclesiastes 2:23All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?
Ecclesiastes 5:16All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:12-23
The Advantages of Wisdom. 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 12 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. 13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? 14 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.… Read the whole commentary →