Ecclesiastes 7:14
In the day of prosperity live joyfully, and consider in the day of adversity: consider, I say, God also has caused the one to agree with the other for this reason, that man should find nothing after him.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
13Behold the works of God: for who shall be able to straighten him whom God has made crooked?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:47because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with gladness and a good heart, because of the abundance of all things.
1 Kings 17:17And it came to pass afterward, that the son of the woman the mistress of the house was sick; and his sickness was very severe, until there was no breath left in him.
Job 2:10But he looked on her, and said to her, Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.
Psalms 30:11For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled.
Ecclesiastes 3:4a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to lament, and a time to dance;
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 →