Ecclesiastes 7:14
On a good day, be happy. When a bad day comes, stop and think. God made each day, so you don't know what will happen to you next.
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13Think about what God does. If he makes something bent, you can't straighten it!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:47Because you did not serve the Lord your God with happiness and with a joyful attitude,
1 Kings 17:17Later on the woman's son fell sick. (She was the one who owned the house.) He went from bad to worse, and finally he died.
Job 2:10But he told her, “You're talking just like any foolish woman would! Should we receive only good from God, and not evil?” Despite all this, Job said nothing sinful.
Psalms 30:11You have turned my weeping into dancing. You have taken off my clothes of sackcloth and dressed me in happiness,
Psalms 94:12Those you discipline are happy, Lord; those you teach from your Law.
Ecclesiastes 3:4A time of crying, and a time of laughing. A time of mourning, and a time of dancing.
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 →