Ecclesiastes 7:14 {15}
Good News Translation
When things are going well for you, be glad, and when trouble comes, just remember: God sends both happiness and trouble; you never know what is going to happen next.

New Revised Standard Version
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that mortals may not find out anything that will come after them.

Contemporary English Version
When times are good, you should be cheerful; when times are bad, think about what it means. God makes them both to keep us from knowing what will happen next.

New American Bible
On a good day enjoy good things, and on an evil day consider: Both the one and the other God has made, so that no one may find the least fault with him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.

the day

Ecclesiastes 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.

Deuteronomy 28:47 Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:

Psalm 30:11,12 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy: thou hast cut my sackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness: . . .

Psalm 40:3 And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord.

Matthew 9:13 Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.

John 16:22,23 So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you. . . .

James 5:13 Is any of you sad? Let him pray: Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.

but

Deuteronomy 8:3 He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

1 Kings 8:47 Then if they do penance in their heart, in the place of captivity, and being converted, make supplication to thee in their captivity, saying: We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have committed wickedness:

1 Kings 17:17,18 And it came to pass after this, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous, so that there was no breath left in him. . . .

2 Chronicles 33:12,13 And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers. . . .

Job 10:1,2 My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. . . .

Psalm 94:12,13 Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law. . . .

Psalm 119:71 It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications.

Isaiah 22:12-14 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: . . .

Isaiah 26:11 Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.

Isaiah 42:25 And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood not.

Jeremiah 23:20 The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand his counsel.

Micah 6:9 The voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be to them that fear thy name: hear O ye tribes, and who shall approve it?

Haggai 1:5-7 And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways. . . .

Luke 15:17,18 And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my father's house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger! . . .

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

set

Ecclesiastes 12:8,13 Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all things are vanity. . . .

Hosea 2:6,7 Wherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths. . . .

Context
The Value of Wisdom
13Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised. 14In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:5
That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.

Deuteronomy 26:11
And thou shalt feast in all the good things which the Lord thy God hath given thee, and thy house, thou and the Levite, and the stranger that is with thee.

Job 2:10
And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

Ecclesiastes 3:22
And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 8:7
Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.

Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.

Ecclesiastes 10:14
A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice therefore, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart be in that which is good in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: and know that for all these God will bring thee into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 7:13
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