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    Ecclesiastes 7
    • 1   A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
    • 2   It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
    • 3   Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
    • 4   The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
    • 5   It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
    • 6   For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
    • 7   Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
    • 8   Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
    • 9   Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
    • 10   Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
    • 11   Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
    • 12   For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
    • 13   Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
    • 14   In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
    • 15   All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
    • 16   Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
    • 17   Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
    • 18   It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.
    • 19   Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
    • 20   For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
    • 21   Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
    • 22   For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
    • 23   All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
    • 24   That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
    • 25   I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
    • 26   And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
    • 27   Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
    • 28   Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
    • 29   Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

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    2023-07-19

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    This is the King James Version of the Holy Bible (also known as the Authorized Version) with embedded Strong's Numbers. The rights to the base text are held by the Crown of England.
    The Strong's numbers in the OT were obtained from The Bible Foundation: http://www.bf.org. The NT Strong's data was obtained from The KJV2003 Project at CrossWire: http://www.crosswire.org. These mechanisms provide a useful means for looking up the exact original language word in a lexicon that is keyed to Strong's numbers.

    Special thanks to the volunteers at Bible Foundation for keying the Hebrew/English data and of Project KJV2003 for working toward the completion of synchronizing the English phrases to the Stephanas Textus Receptus, and to Dr. Maurice Robinson for providing the base Greek text with Strong's and Morphology.
    We are also appreciative of formatting markup that was provided by Michael Paul Johnson at http://www.ebible.org. Their time and generosity to contribute such for the free use of the Body of Christ is a great blessing and this derivitive work could not have been possible without these efforts of so many individuals.
    Version 3.1 incorporates a more recent set of TR data from Dr. Maurice Robinson than was used in all the earlier versions. The TR data was obtained in 2016 from the Greek New Testament sources website
    https://sites.google.com/a/wmail.fi/greeknt/home/greeknt
    This was integrated into the OSIS source files of an intermediate version 2.9a hosted at
    https://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2011/kjv2.9a/
    It is in this spirit that we in turn offer the KJV2003 Project text freely for any purpose.
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    • Encoding: UTF-8
    • Direction: LTR
    • LCSH: Bible.English
    • Distribution Abbreviation: kjv

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    history_1.1
    Fixed .conf file GlobalOptionFilters
    history_1.2
    Added Feature StrongsNumbers to configuration
    history_1.3
    Added Morph option
    history_1.4
    Fixed Psalm Titles to use correct GBF tags HT and Ht
    history_2.0
    Changed New Testament to use a snapshot of the KJV2003 Project
    history_2.1
    Changed Old Testament to use OSIS tags, removing the last of the GBF markup. Also updated to 20030624 snapshot of KJV2003. Compressed.
    history_2.2
    Updated to 20040121 snapshot of KJV2003.
    history_2.3
    Fixed bugs.
    history_2.4
    Fixed bugs.
    history_2.5
    Fixed bugs.
    history_2.6
    Fixed bugs. Added Greek from TR.
    history_2.6.1
    Added GlobalOptionFilter for OSISLemma
    history_2.7
    Fixed bugs preventing the display of some Strong's Numbers.
    history_2.8
    (2015-12-20) Moved Ps 119 acrostic titles before verse number. Added Feature for no paragraphs.
    history_2.9
    (2016-01-21) Added markup to notes. Improved markup of Selah.
    history_2.10.2
    (2021-04-04) Fixed errant article Strong's markup in Rom.3.26
    history_2.11
    (2023-06-27) Updated the TR data in 5888 verses. Correction of Ps.2.4: the Lord → the Lord.\ MOD-448: many errors with strong as G3688, should be G3588.\ Five locations where small caps is inappropriate, Lord change for LORD Exodus 28:36; 39:30, Deuteronomy 28:58, Jeremiah 23:6, Zechariah 14:20.\ MOD-411: Psalm 80, Shoshannim–eduth → Shoshannim–Eduth.\ MOD-408: italics in Nahum 1:3, (hath) → (hath).\ MOD-358: Missing red letter markup in Luke 11:2, red marker moved before 'When'.\ MOD-413 multiple text issues (italics, spelling, ...).\ MOD-441: Missing strong number for the seventh word.\ MOD-419: Spurious "or" removed; Exodus 17:15 "Jehovah–nissi" → "JEHOVAH–nissi".\ 1 John 2:23 has "(but)" whereas Blayney has "[but]"; Correction of some morph errors in I Corinthians 3:13 A-GMS → A-GSM; I Corinthians 11:6 and 14:24 N-NAM → N-NSM; Hb 9.13, 10.4: N-GMP → N-GPM; I Cor 7:37 2 change for 12; 1Chr.27.12 Abi-ezer → abiezer; Exod.17.15: Jehovah → JEHOVAH.\ Correction of Jer.23.6: L → LORD; MOD-376: Mk 1:10.19 have a wrong strong number: 1492. The correct number is 3708. Correction of rdg attribute type="alternative" (2.9) to "alternate". Misplaced in Numbers 16:13. Duplicated entry in Eph. 3.20, spurious comma in Gn 1.2 and 2.9. Ezra 5:3,6; 6.6,13: morph="strongMorph:TH8674 changed for lemma="strong:H08674.
    history_3.1
    (2023-07-19) Conf version updated to 3.1 to match KJVA version.
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