Ecclesiastes 7:14
In the day of prosperity live joyfully, 1 And consider in the day of adversity: 1 Consider, I say, God also has caused 1 The one to agree with the other for this reason, 1 That man should find nothing after him. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
13Behold the works of God: 1 For who shall be able to straighten 1 Him whom God has made crooked? 1
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, 1 Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women. 1 If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? 1 In all these things that happened to him, 1 Job sinned not at all with his lips before God. 1
Psalms 30:11For my life is spent with grief, 1 And my years with groanings: 1 My strength has been weakened through poverty, 1 And my bones are troubled. 1
Ecclesiastes 3:4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; 1 A time to lament, and a time to dance; 1
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 →