Ecclesiastes 7:2 “It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, si…”

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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 should take this to heart.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?

Darby Translation

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: in that that is the end of all men, and the living taketh it to heart.

Young's Literal Translation

Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth [it] unto his heart.

Bible in Basic English

It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

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Cross references

“better”

Genesis 48:1–22 Genesis 49:2–33 Genesis 50:15–17 Isaiah 22:12–14 Amos 6:3–6 Matthew 5:4

Genesis 48:1–22 · BSB

Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 49:2–33 · BSB

Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.

Genesis 50:15–17 · BSB

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”

Isaiah 22:12–14 · BSB

On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

Amos 6:3–6 · BSB

You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

Matthew 5:4 · BSB

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

“that”

Deuteronomy 32:29 Hebrews 9:27 Philippians 3:19 Numbers 23:10 Romans 6:21 Romans 6:22

Deuteronomy 32:29 · BSB

If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

Hebrews 9:27 · BSB

Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

Philippians 3:19 · BSB

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

Numbers 23:10 · BSB

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”

Romans 6:21 · BSB

What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

Romans 6:22 · BSB

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

“living”

Deuteronomy 32:46 Haggai 1:5 Isaiah 47:7 Malachi 2:2

Deuteronomy 32:46 · BSB

he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.

Haggai 1:5 · BSB

Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

Isaiah 47:7 · BSB

You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.

Malachi 2:2 · BSB

If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you ar…

Also

Psalm 90:12

Psalm 90:12 · BSB

So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.

3Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.

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