Ecclesiastes Chapter 7 Verse 1A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this hath more rest than the other.

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it [is] man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?

For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

[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.

Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

The heart of the wise [is] in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools [is] in the house of mirth.

[It is] better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity.

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

Better [is] the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.

The Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 7, Verse 1