King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 7:1
“A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.”
Verse in context — 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.
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