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Selected Verse: Ecclesiates 7:5 - Strong Concordance

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Ec 7:5 Strong Concordance It is better [02896] to hear [08085] the rebuke [01606] of the wise [02450], than for a man [0376] to hear [08085] the song [07892] of fools [03684].
  King James It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
(Psa 141:4-5). Godly reproof offends the flesh, but benefits the spirit. Fools' songs in the house of mirth please the flesh, but injure the soul.
 
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4 Incline [05186] not my heart [03820] to any evil [07451] thing [01697], to practise [05953] wicked [07562] works [05949] with men [0376] that work [06466] iniquity [0205]: and let me not eat [03898] of their dainties [04516].
5 Let the righteous [06662] smite [01986] me; it shall be a kindness [02617]: and let him reprove [03198] me; it shall be an excellent [07218] oil [08081], which shall not break [05106] my head [07218]: for yet my prayer [08605] also shall be in their calamities [07451].
14 There is [03426] a vanity [01892] which is done [06213] upon the earth [0776]; that there be just [06662] men, unto whom it happeneth [05060] according to the work [04639] of the wicked [07563]; again, there be [03426] wicked [07563] men, to whom it happeneth [05060] according to the work [04639] of the righteous [06662]: I said [0559] that this also [01571] is vanity [01892].
6 For as the crackling [06963] of thorns [05518] under a pot [05518], so is the laughter [07814] of the fool [03684]: this also is vanity [01892].
7 Surely oppression [06233] maketh a wise man [02450] mad [01984]; and a gift [04979] destroyeth [06] the heart [03820].
8 Better [02896] is a little [04592] with righteousness [06666] than great [07230] revenues [08393] without right [04941].
16 A little [04592] that a righteous man [06662] hath is better [02896] than the riches [01995] of many [07227] wicked [07563].
7 Surely oppression [06233] maketh a wise man [02450] mad [01984]; and a gift [04979] destroyeth [06] the heart [03820].
5 It is better [02896] to hear [08085] the rebuke [01606] of the wise [02450], than for a man [0376] to hear [08085] the song [07892] of fools [03684].
6 For as the crackling [06963] of thorns [05518] under a pot [05518], so is the laughter [07814] of the fool [03684]: this also is vanity [01892].
7 Surely oppression [06233] maketh a wise man [02450] mad [01984]; and a gift [04979] destroyeth [06] the heart [03820].
5 It is better [02896] to hear [08085] the rebuke [01606] of the wise [02450], than for a man [0376] to hear [08085] the song [07892] of fools [03684].
7 Surely oppression [06233] maketh a wise man [02450] mad [01984]; and a gift [04979] destroyeth [06] the heart [03820].
5 It is better [02896] to hear [08085] the rebuke [01606] of the wise [02450], than for a man [0376] to hear [08085] the song [07892] of fools [03684].
6 For as the crackling [06963] of thorns [05518] under a pot [05518], so is the laughter [07814] of the fool [03684]: this also is vanity [01892].
7 Surely oppression [06233] maketh a wise man [02450] mad [01984]; and a gift [04979] destroyeth [06] the heart [03820].
7 Surely oppression [06233] maketh a wise man [02450] mad [01984]; and a gift [04979] destroyeth [06] the heart [03820].
5 It is better [02896] to hear [08085] the rebuke [01606] of the wise [02450], than for a man [0376] to hear [08085] the song [07892] of fools [03684].
7 Surely oppression [06233] maketh a wise man [02450] mad [01984]; and a gift [04979] destroyeth [06] the heart [03820].
5 It is better [02896] to hear [08085] the rebuke [01606] of the wise [02450], than for a man [0376] to hear [08085] the song [07892] of fools [03684].
6 For as the crackling [06963] of thorns [05518] under a pot [05518], so is the laughter [07814] of the fool [03684]: this also is vanity [01892].
6 For as the crackling [06963] of thorns [05518] under a pot [05518], so is the laughter [07814] of the fool [03684]: this also is vanity [01892].
7 Surely oppression [06233] maketh a wise man [02450] mad [01984]; and a gift [04979] destroyeth [06] the heart [03820].
7 Surely oppression [06233] maketh a wise man [02450] mad [01984]; and a gift [04979] destroyeth [06] the heart [03820].
6 For as the crackling [06963] of thorns [05518] under a pot [05518], so is the laughter [07814] of the fool [03684]: this also is vanity [01892].
12 They compassed me about [05437] like bees [01682]; they are quenched [01846] as the fire [0784] of thorns [06975]: for in the name [08034] of the LORD [03068] I will destroy [04135] them.
10 A reproof [01606] entereth [05181] more into a wise man [0995] than an hundred [03967] stripes [05221] into a fool [03684].
1 A wise [02450] son [01121] heareth his father's [01] instruction [04148]: but a scorner [03887] heareth [08085] not rebuke [01606].