Ecclesiastes 7:14
In a day of prosperity be in gladness, || And in a day of calamity consider: God has also made this alongside of that, || To the intent that man does not find anything after him.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13See the work of God, || For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:47Because that you have not served your God YHWH with joy and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things—
1 Kings 17:17And it comes to pass, after these things, the son of the woman, mistress of the house, has been sick, and his sickness is very severe until no breath has been left in him.
Job 2:10And he says to her, “As one of the foolish women speaks, you speak; indeed, do we receive the good from God, and we do not receive the bad?” In all this Job has not sinned with his lips.
Psalms 30:11You have turned my mourning to dancing for me, || You have loosed my sackcloth, || And gird me [with] joy.
Psalms 94:12O the blessedness of the man || Whom You instruct, O YAH, || And teach him out of Your law,
Ecclesiastes 3:4A time to weep, || And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, || And a time to skip.
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 →