¹ Better `is' a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.

¹ A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold -- good grace.

² And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

¹³ And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours -- and their works do follow them!'

²¹ for to me to live `is' Christ, and to die gain.

²² And if to live in the flesh `is' to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not;

²³ for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,

⁸ we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

³ For fragrance `are' thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out -- thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!

³⁹ and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,

² for in this were the elders testified of;

¹ For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,

² And supper being come, the devil already having put `it' into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver him up,

²⁰ but, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice rather that your names were written in the heavens.'

¹ The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying `it' to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one.

² He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, `Each' is going straightforward.

⁵ I have given to them in My house, And within My walls a station and a name, Better than sons and than daughters, A name age-during I give to him That is not cut off.

¹ Dead flies cause a perfumer's perfume To send forth a stink; The precious by reason of wisdom -- By reason of honour -- a little folly!

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend -- from counsel of the soul.

³⁰ The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart, A good report maketh fat the bone.

¹⁷ There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.

¹⁰ How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.

² As the good oil on the head, Coming down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, That cometh down on the skirt of his robes,