1894.] OZO [Morris. 



H What is tie advantage to man ? 



For who knows wliat is good for man in life, 

 The number of his days of hij perplexity ? 

 For He hath made them in a shadow: 

 For who shall announce to a man 

 What shall be after him under the sun ? 



EGYPTIAN. 



2 A good name is better than good ointment, 

 And the day of death than the day of birth. 



3 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feast- 



ing : 

 For this is the end of every man, 

 And the living shall give good to his heart. 



4 Anger is better than laughter : 



For in severity of the face the heart shall be made better. 



SOLOMON. 



5 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, 

 But the heart of fools is in the house of joy. 



6 Better to hear the rebuke of the wise 

 Tiian to listen to the song of fools. 



7 Like the crackling of thorns under the pot, 

 So is the laughter of fools. 



TYRIAN. 



This also indeed is perplexity, 



8 That oppression carries away a wise man 

 And destroys the heart of his nobleness. 



9 Better is the end of strife than the beginning of it : 

 Better the patient than the proud in spirit. 



10 Haste not in thy spirit to be angry : 

 For rage dwells in the bosom of fools. 



11 Say not of what was, that former days were better than these : 

 For not in wisdom hast thou inquired about this. 



SOLOMON. 



13 Wisdom is better than an inheritance, 

 Yea, an advantage to those seeing the sun. 



13 For in its shelter wisdom is as the shelter of silver : 



And abundance of knowledge of wisdom shall make one alive through 

 it. 



ASSYRIAN. 



14 Consider the works of God : 



Who can adorn him whom God has overtarned? 



