The wise person has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both.
Ecclesiastes 7:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, since that is the end of all mankind, and the living should take it to heart. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to heart. American Standard Version (1901) It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Common English Bible It is better to go to a house in mourning than to a house party, because that is everyone’s destiny; and the living should take it to heart. Catholic Public Domain Version A good name is better than precious ointments, and a day of death is better than a day of birth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth. |
The wise person has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both.
For, just like the fool, there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, since in the days to come both will be forgotten. How is it that the wise person dies just like the fool?
For the fate of the children of Adam and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.
All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
And if a person lives for a thousand years twice, but does not experience happiness, do not both go to the same place?
Everything is the same for everyone: There is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so also it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who takes an oath, so also for the one who fears an oath.
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one fate for everyone. In addition, the hearts of people are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live; after that they go to the dead.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything. There is no longer a reward for them because the memory of them is forgotten.
You said, “I will be the queen for ever.” You did not take these things to heart or think about their outcome.
Do not enter the house where feasting is taking place to sit with them to eat and drink.
If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heart to honour my name,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.
Who has counted the dust of Jacob or numbered even quarter of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright; let the end of my life be like theirs.
If only they were wise, they would comprehend this; they would understand their fate.
he said to them, ‘Take to heart all these words I am giving as a warning to you today, so that you may command your children to follow all the words of this law carefully.
Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things.
And just as it is appointed for people to die once #– #and after this, judgement #– #