People Generally Do Not Know What Is Best For Them

¹ A good name is more worth than a precious ointment, and the day of death is better than the day of birth. ² It is better to go into a house of mourning, than into a banquet house: For there is the end of all men, and he that is living taketh it to heart.

Precious Ointment

Precious Oil

Proverbs 22:1

A good name is more worth than great riches; and loving favour is better than silver and gold.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Wherefore I judged those that are dead, to be more happy than such as be alive.

Song of Songs 1:3

and that because of the good and pleasant savour. Thy name is sweet smelling ointment when it is shed forth; therefore do the maidens love thee.

Job 3:17

There, must the wicked cease from their tyranny, there such as are overlaboured be at rest.

Proverbs 15:30

Like as the clearness of the eyes rejoiceth the heart; so doth a good name feed the bones.

Proverbs 27:9

The heart is glad of a sweet ointment and savour, but a stomach that can give good counsel, rejoiceth a man's neighbour.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies corrupt sweet ointment and make it to stink. Even so, oft times, he that hath been had in estimation for wisdom and honour is abhorred because of a little foolishness.

Song of Songs 4:10

O how fair are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse? Thy breasts are more pleasant than wine, and the smell of thine ointments passeth all spices.

Isaiah 56:5

Unto them will I give in my household and within my walls, a better heritage and name than if they had been called sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that shall not perish.

Isaiah 57:1-2

But in the mean season the righteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart. Good godly people are taken away, and no man considereth it. Namely, that the righteous is conveyed away through the wicked,

Luke 10:20

Nevertheless, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are under your power: But rejoice because your names are written in heaven."

John 13:2

And when supper was ended, after that, the devil had put in the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:

2 Corinthians 5:8

Nevertheless we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

Philippians 1:21-23

For Christ is to me life, and death is to me advantage.

Hebrews 11:2

By it the elders were well reported of.

Hebrews 11:39

And these all, through faith, obtained good report, and received not the promise;

Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead, which hereafter die in the Lord: Even so, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; but their works shall follow them.'"

Psalm 133:2

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down unto the beard; even unto Aaron's beard, and went down to the skirts of his clothing.