[:en]WHICH IS BETTER?
Good name or fine perfume?
The day of death or the day of birth?
To go to a house of mourning or to a house of feasting?
Sorrow or laughter?
Wise man’s rebuke or song of the fools
End or beginning?
Patience or pride?
Wisdom is like an inheritance and a shelter that preseves the life of its possessor (v. 12) It makes one wise man more powerful than 10 rules in a city (v.19)
“A man cannot discover anything about his future” (v. 14)
Two meaningless in life that Solomon have seen: (v. 15)
- A righteous man perishing in his righteousness
- A wicked man living long in his wickedness
“Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you – for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed other” (vs. 21-22)
SOLOMON’S DISCOVERY:
“I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare” (v. 266)
“I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all. (v. 28)
“God made mankind upright, but men have gone in search ofo many schemes” (v. 29)
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