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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF ECC 7:1 THE SECOND BOOK OF THE PREACHER.
POEMS AND LECTURES.

Introductory Poem: On the Best Objects of Life.
A good name is better than sweet perfume—
And the day of death, than the day of birth!
RF ECC 7:2 Better go to the house of sorrow,
Than go to the house of feasting;
For that, is the end of all men,
And the living will lay it to heart.
RF ECC 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter,
For by a sad face, the heart is improved.
RF ECC 7:4 The heart of the Wise seeks the house of Grief,
But the heart of the Fools, the house of Joy.
RF ECC 7:5 Better hear the reproof of the Wise.
Than attend to the singing of Fools!—
RF ECC 7:6 As crackling thorns sound under a pot,
So the laughter of Fools is vain!
RF ECC 7:7 Oppression can madden the wise,
And a bribe perverts the mind.
RF ECC 7:8 The end of a thing excels the beginning,—
And a gentle spirit excels a proud.
RF ECC 7:9 Excite not your spirit to anger,—
For anger resides in the bosom of fools!
RF ECC 7:10 Lecture 9: On the Folly of Discontent.
Do not ask why the former times were better than these?—for it is not wise to enquire why.—
RF ECC 7:11 Science is good with an estate, and it is useful to those who see the sun,
RF ECC 7:12 for science is a defence, as money is a defence, and abundant knowledge of science may preserve the life of its possessor.
RF ECC 7:13 Consider the Creation of God. Who is able to straighten what He has bent?
RF ECC 7:14 In the day of prosperity be happy; and in the day of adversity reflect; for God made both this and that. To spare words, no man can discover anything about events after himself!
RF ECC 7:15 I have observed all this in my unhappy days,—that sometimes a good man perished by his goodness; and sometimes a bad man is preserved by his crimes!
RF ECC 7:16 Do not be over good, or make yourself over learned;—why should you overwhelm yourself?
RF ECC 7:17 Do not be very bad, and do not be foolish;—why should you kill yourself before your time?
RF ECC 7:18 It is well that you should lay hold of this, and also not withdraw your hand from that;—but whoever reverences God will escape from all.
RF ECC 7:19 Science helps the educated, more than ten strong men who may be in a fortress;
RF ECC 7:20 for there is not a clever man on earth who always does well, and never mistakes;
RF ECC 7:21 so do not give your attention to all the things that are spoken, or perhaps you may hear your servant curse you,
RF ECC 7:22 for your heart knows how often you yourself have cursed others.
RF ECC 7:23 I have ascertained all this scientifically. I declared I would become scientific.—But it was far from me.—
RF ECC 7:24 Where does extent go? and who can explore space?
RF ECC 7:25 I turned back, and decided to learn, and investigate and seek knowledge and skill, and to learn the wickedness of Folly, and Perversity, and Recklessness;—
RF ECC 7:26 and I discovered that a woman who has craft and vices in her heart, and snares in her hands, is worse than death! May the Good before God escape from her; but the Offensive be captured by her!
RF ECC 7:27 I have discovered these, says the Preacher, by comparing one with another, to discover motives,
RF ECC 7:28 with my mind continually thinking. I have discovered one man's motive in a thousand. But in all these I have not discovered a woman's!
RF ECC 7:29 I have only discovered this;—that GOD made Mankind right, but they have sought out many villainies!




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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