7:6. It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattery of fools. 7:7. For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity. 7:8. Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart. 7:9. Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous. 7:10. Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool. 7:11. Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish. 7:12. Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun. 7:13. For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them. 7:14. Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised. 7:15. 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. 7:16. 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. 7:17. Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest thou become stupid. Over just... Viz., By an excessive rigour in censuring the ways of God in bearing with the wicked. 7:18. Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before thy time. Be not overmuch wicked... That is, lest by the greatness of your sin you leave no room for mercy. 7:19. It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing. 7:20. Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city. 7:21. For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not. 7:22. But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee. 7:23. For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others. 7:24. I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me, 7:25. Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out? 7:26. I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent: 7:27. And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her. 7:28. Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account, 7:29. Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.