Ecclesiastes 7:1 Cross References - YLT

¹ Better is a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.

¹⁷ There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.

² As the good oil on the head, Coming down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, That cometh down on the skirt of his robes,

³⁰ The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart, A good report maketh fat the bone.

¹ A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold—good grace.

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend—from counsel of the soul.

² And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

¹ Dead flies cause a perfumer's perfume To send forth a stink; The precious by reason of wisdom—By reason of honour—a little folly!

³ For fragrance are thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out—thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!

¹⁰ How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.

⁵ I have given to them in My house, And within My walls a station and a name, Better than sons and than daughters, A name age-during I give to him That is not cut off.

¹ The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying it to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one. ² He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, Each is going straightforward.

²⁰ but, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice rather that your names were written in the heavens.'

² And supper being come, the devil already having put it into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver him up,

¹ For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands—age-during—in the heavens,

⁸ we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

²¹ for to me to live is Christ, and to die gain. ²² And if to live in the flesh is to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not; ²³ for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,

² for in this were the elders testified of;

³⁹ and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,

¹³ And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours—and their works do follow them!'