Ecclesiastes 7:15
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.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
14Behold the works of God: for who shall be able to straighten him whom God has made crooked?
Cross References
1 Samuel 22:18And the king said to Doec, Turn you, and fall upon the priests: and Doec the Syrian turned, and killed the priests of the Lord in that day, three hundred and five men, all wearing + 22:18 Alex. a linen ephod. an ephod.
2 Chronicles 24:21And they conspired against him, and stone him by command of king Joas in the court of the Lord's house.
Job 21:7Therefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?
Psalms 39:6+ 39:6 Heb 10:5-6 Sacrifice and offering you would not; but a body have you prepared me: whole burnt offering and sacrifice for sin you did not require. 1
Ecclesiastes 2:23For all his days are days of sorrows, and vexation of spirit is his; in the night also his heart rests not. This is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5:16Yes, all his days are in darkness, and in mourning, and much sorrow, and infirmity, and wrath.
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 →