Ecclesiastes 7:1 Cross References - Leeser

¹ A good name is better than precious oil, and the day of death, better than the day of one’s birth.

¹⁷ There where the wicked cease from troubling; and where the exhausted weary are at rest;

² It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down upon the beard, yea, Aaron’s beard, which runneth down upon the upper border of his garments;

³⁰ What is pleasant to the light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: a good report giveth marrow to the bones.

¹ A good name is preferable to abundant riches, and good grace, to silver and to gold.

⁹ Oil and perfume cause the heart to rejoice, and so do the sweet words of a friend more than one’s own counsel.

² Thereupon praised I the dead that are already dead, more than the living who are still alive;

¹ Dead flies cause the precious oil of the apothecary to become stinking and foaming; so doth a little folly him that is valued for wisdom and honor.

³ To the smell are thy fragrant oils pleasant, like precious oil poured forth is thy name famous afar: therefore do maidens love thee.

¹⁰ How beautiful are thy caresses, O my sister, my bride! how much more pleasant are thy caresses than wine! and the smell of thy fragrant oils more than all spices.

⁵ I will indeed give unto them in my house and within my walls a place and a name, better than sons and daughters: an everlasting name will I give them, that shall not be cut off.

¹ The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and pious men are taken away, without one considering that before the evil the righteous is taken away. ² He shall come to his fathers in peace: they shall repose in their resting-place, every one that walketh in his uprightness.