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

Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and hearken to Israel your father.

And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did to him.

And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day, and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!

And in that day the Lord, LORD of hosts, called for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.

Ye who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near,

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

But Herod's birthday being brought, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod.

For enough time of life has past for you to accomplish the will of the Gentiles, having gone in debaucheries, lusts, excesses of wine, revelings, drinking parties, and lawless idolatries.

That

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

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things.

And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, judgment,

Living

And he said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which ye shall command your sons to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law.

And thou said, I shall be mistress forever, so that thou did not lay these things to thy heart, nor remembered the latter end of it.

Now therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

General references

And thou shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.