Ecclesiastes 7:1 - Modern King James Version

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

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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?

Ecclesiastes 7:1 Tagairtí Cros

Job 3:17

There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest;

Psalm 133:2

It is like the precious ointment on the head that ran down on the beard, Aaron's beard, that went down to the mouth of his garments;

Proverbs 15:30

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart; a good report makes the bones fat.

Proverbs 22:1

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches; and loving favor rather than silver or gold.

Proverbs 25:10

lest he who hears it put you to shame, and your evil report turn not away.

Proverbs 27:9

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of one's friend by advice from the heart.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink and ferment; so a little folly is more rare than wisdom and than honor.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I commended the dead who already have died, more than the living who are living now.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning of it; the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Song of Solomon 1:3

For Your ointments have a lovely fragrance; Your name is as oil poured out; therefore the virgins love You.

Song of Solomon 4:10

How fair is your love, My sister, My spouse! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your ointments than all spices!

Isaiah 56:5

even to them will I give within My house and within My walls a hand and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

Jonah 4:3

And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.

Luke 10:20

Yet do not rejoice in this, that the evil spirits are subject to you, rather rejoice because your names are written in Heaven.

John 13:2

And when supper had ended, the Devil now having put into the heart of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon to betray Him,

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:8

then we are confident and we are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body, and to come home to the Lord.

Hebrews 11:2

For by it the elders obtained a good report.

Hebrews 11:39

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise,

Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice from Heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they shall rest from their labors, and their works follow them.

Ruth 3:14

And she lay at his feet until the morning. And she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Do not let it be known that a woman came to the floor.