Ecclesiastes 7:5
The NET BibleOther versions
English
- NET The NET Bible
- DARBY 1890 Darby Bible
- ASV American Standard Version
- AV 1873 The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version
- CSB Christian Standard Bible
- D-R Douay-Rheims Bible
- ESV English Standard Version
- GW GOD’S WORD Translation
- GNB Good News Translation
- HCSB The Holman Christian Standard Bible
- KJV 1900 King James Version
- LSB Legacy Standard Bible
- LEB The Lexham English Bible
- MSG The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language
- NASB95 New American Standard Bible (1995)
- NCV New Century Version
- NIrV New International Reader’s Version (1998)
- NIV New International Version (2011)
- NKJV The New King James Version
- NLT New Living Translation
- NRSVue New Revised Standard Version: Updated Edition
- RSV The Revised Standard Version
- RSVCE The Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition
- TNIV Today’s New International Version
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Arabic
Czech
French
German
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Korean
Latin
Portuguese
Russian
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
Traditional Chinese
Frivolous Living Versus Wisdom
7:5It is better for a person to receive20 a rebuke from those who are wise21
than to listen to the song22 of fools.
Footnotes
- 20 Heb “hear.”
- 21 Heb “rebuke of the wise,” a subjective genitive (“the wise” administer the rebuke).
- 22 Or “praise.” The antithetical parallelism between “rebuke” (גַּעֲרַת, ga’arat) and “song” (שִׁיר, shir) suggests that the latter is figurative (metonymy of association) for praise/flattery which is “music” to the ears: “praise of fools” (, ) and “flattery of fools” (). However, the collocation of “song” (שִׁיר) in 7:5 with “laughter” (שְׂחֹק, sékhoq) in 7:6 suggests simply frivolous merrymaking: “song of fools” (, , , , , ).
The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press
In other versions
ESVEnglish Standard Version
It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise
than to hear the song of fools.
Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles
NIVNew International Version (2011)
It is better to heed the rebuke of a wise person
than to listen to the song of fools.
Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.
CSBChristian Standard Bible
It is better to listen to rebuke from a wise person
than to listen to the song of fools,
Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
NLTNew Living Translation
Better to be criticized by a wise person
than to be praised by a fool.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.
LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Better to listen to the rebuke of the wise
than for a man to listen to the song of fools.
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
KJV 1900King James Version
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Public Domain