Ecclesiastes 7:7 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁷ 4 In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Surely oppression and extortion make a wise man foolish, and a bribe destroys the understanding and judgment.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Surely extortion maketh the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroyeth the understanding.

Common English Bible

⁷ Oppression turns the wise into fools; a bribe corrupts the heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For, like the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of the foolish. But this, too, is emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 7:7 Cross References

Exodus 23:8

1 But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy vineyard and thy oliveyard.

Proverbs 17:23

A fool receiveth not the words of prudence: unless thou say those things which are in his heart.

Proverbs 17:8

5 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

5 As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

6 And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to understand the distraction that is upon earth: for there are some that day and night take no sleep with their eyes.

Isaiah 1:23

1 And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.

Isaiah 33:15

3 Thy tacklings are loosed, and they shall be of no strength: thy mast shall be in such condition, that thou shalt not be able to spread the flag. Then shall the spoils of much prey be divided: the lame shall take the spoil.

Deuteronomy 16:19

When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant,

Deuteronomy 28:65

And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: You have seen all the things that the Lord did before you in the land of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole land.

1 Samuel 12:3

How Jacob went into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the Lord: and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and brought your fathers out of Egypt: and made them dwell in this place.

1 Samuel 21:14

And he left them under the eyes of the king of Moab, and they abode with him all the days that David was in the hold.

1 Samuel 8:3

According to all their works, they have done from the day that I brought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and served strange gods, so do they also unto thee.