Ecclesiastes 7:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Better

That

Hebrews 9:27

Living

Deuteronomy 32:46

Isaiah 47:7

Haggai 1:5

General references

Jeremiah 16:8

Bible References

Better

Gather yourselves together and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and hearken unto Israel your father.

And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

And his sons went and had banquets in their houses, each one on his day, and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may continue their drunkenness; that continue until night until wine inflames them!

Therefore the Lord GOD of the hosts did call in this day unto weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth:

Ye that put far away the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near;

Blessed are those that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod.

For it should suffice us that during the time past of our life we had done the will of the Gentiles, when we conversed in lasciviousness, lusts, drunkenness, gluttony, orgies, and abominable idolatries.

That

Who shall count the dust of Jacob and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

O that they were wise, if they were prudent, they would understand their latter end!

What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

whose end shall be perdition, whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things).

And as it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this the judgment;

Living

and he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I protest against you today, to command them unto your children and keep and fulfil all the words of this law.

And thou didst say, I shall be a lady for ever. Until now thou hast not laid these things to heart, neither didst thou remember thy latter end.

Now therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Consider your ways.

General references

In the same manner thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.