Ecclesiastes 7:2

People Generally Do Not Know What Is Best For Them

¹ A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth. ² 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. ³ Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

Take It to Heart

Genesis 48:1-22

Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 49:2-33

Come near, O sons of Jacob, and give ear to the words of Israel your father.

Genesis 50:15-17

Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.

Numbers 23:10

Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!

Deuteronomy 32:29

If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!

Deuteronomy 32:46

Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.

Job 1:4-5

His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.

Isaiah 5:11-12

Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!

Isaiah 22:12-14

And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

Isaiah 47:7

And you said, I will be a queen for ever: you did not give attention to these things, and did not keep in mind what would come after.

Amos 6:3-6

You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;

Haggai 1:5

For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

Matthew 5:4

Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.

Matthew 14:6-12

But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias was dancing before them, and Herod was pleased with her.

Romans 6:21-22

What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

Philippians 3:19

Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

Hebrews 9:27

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

1 Peter 4:3-4

Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;