Ecclesiastes 7:14

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Summary

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

The day

James 5:13

But

Bible References

The day

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things;

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have torn off my sackcloth, and have clothed me with gladness,

And He has put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God; many shall see it and fear, and shall trust in Jehovah.

But go and learn what this is, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

And therefore you now have sorrow. But I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing psalms.

But

And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, and then He fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know it, so that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of Jehovah man shall live.

yet if they shall think within themselves in the land where they are carried captives, and repent, and pray to You in the land of their captors saying, We have sinned and have done perversely, we have done wickedly,

And it happened after these things the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick. And his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

And when he was in affliction, he sought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on my self; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O Jehovah, to teach him out of Your Law;

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, so that I might learn Your Precepts.

And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.

Jehovah, Your hand is lifted up, they will not see; but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy toward Your people. Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.

So He has poured on him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle. And it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he did not lay it to heart.

The anger of Jehovah shall not return, until He has done and until He has set up the purposes of His heart; in later days you shall understand it perfectly.

Jehovah's voice cries to the city, and in sound wisdom one will see Your name. Hear the rod and Him who has appointed it.

And now so says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways;

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father abound in loaves, and I perish with hunger!

confirming the souls of the disciples, calling on them to continue in the faith and that through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God.