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Ecclesiastes 6:3

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.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

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

Ecclesiastes 6:5

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

Ecclesiastes 6:6

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

Ecclesiastes 6:7

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

Ecclesiastes 6:8

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

Ecclesiastes 6:9

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

Ecclesiastes 6:10

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.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

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

Ecclesiastes 6:12

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?

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

[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.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

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

Ecclesiastes 7:4

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

Ecclesiastes 7:5

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

Ecclesiastes 7:6

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

Ecclesiastes 7:7

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

Ecclesiastes 7:8

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

Ecclesiastes 7:9

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

Ecclesiastes 7:10

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