Ecclesiastes 7:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ A GOOD name is better than precious perfume, and the day of death better than the day of one's birth.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ A good name is better than precious oil; and the day of death, than the day of one’s birth.

Common English Bible

¹ A good name is better than fine oil, and the day of death better than the birthday.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Why is it necessary for a man to seek things that are greater than himself, when he does not know what is advantageous for himself in his life, during the number of the days of his sojourn, and while time passes by like a shadow? Or who will be able to tell him what will be in the future after him under the sun?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:1 Cross References

Job 3:17

2 And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave.

Psalm 133:2

Praise ye the Lord, for the Lord is good: sing ye to his name, for it is sweet.

Proverbs 15:30

The Lord hath made all things for himself: the wicked also for the evil day.

Proverbs 22:1

He that soweth iniquity shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.

Proverbs 25:10

7 Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate thee.

Proverbs 27:9

6 He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call in the oil of his right hand.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

It is better therefore that two should be together, than one: for they have the advantage of their society:

Ecclesiastes 7:8

5 These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness.

Song of Solomon 1:3

1 We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.

Song of Solomon 4:10

I sleep, and my heart watcheth; the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.

Isaiah 56:5

THE just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil.

Jonah 4:3

1 And shall not I spare Ninive, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that know not how to distinguish between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?

Luke 10:20

8 And he said to him: Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

John 13:2

0 Jesus saith to him: He that is washed, needeth not but to wash his feet, but is clean wholly. And you are clean, but not all.

2 Corinthians 5:1

0 For we must all be manifested before the judgement seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.

2 Corinthians 5:8

7 If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away, behold all things are made new.

Hebrews 11:2

1 By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age; because she believed that he was faithful who had promised,

Hebrews 11:39

But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.

Revelation 14:13

And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire, and them that had overcome the beast, and his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having the harps of God:

Ruth 3:14

Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him, calling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down.