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 unto Israel your father!

Now when the brethren of Joseph saw that their father was dead, they said - Oh! if Joseph should lie in wait for us, - and should return, to us, all the evil wherewith we requited him!

Now his sons were wont to go, and make a banquet, at the house of each one upon his day, - and to send and call their three sisters, to eat and to drink with them.

Alas, for them who rise early in the morning that strong drink, they may pursue, - Who follow on in the evening cool until with wine, they are heated;

And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called in that day, - for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare and for girding with sackcloth,

Ye who are putting far away the day of calamity, - but bringing near the abode of violence:

Happy, they who mourn; for, they, shall be comforted:

But, a birthday feast of Herod taking place, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod;

For, sufficient, is the bygone time - to have wrought out, the will of the nations, having gone on in wanton ways, covetings, wine-drinkings, revellings, drinking-bouts, and impious idolatries: -

That

Who hath counted the dust of Jacob? Or who hath numbered the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, And let my hereafter be like his!

If they had been wise, they would have understood this, - They would have given heed to their here-after!

What fruit, therefore, had ye then - in things for which ye now are taking shame to yourselves? For, the end of those things, is death.

Whose, end, is destruction, whose, God, is the belly, and whose , glory, is in their shame, who, upon the earthly things, are resolved.

And, inasmuch as it is in store for men - once for all to die, but after this, judgment,

Living

he said unto them - Apply your hearts unto all the words which I am witnessing against you, to-day, - how that ye must command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law;

And thou saidst, Unto times age-abiding, shall I be Mistress, - Insomuch that thou laidst not these things to thy heart, Didst not keep in mind the issue thereof,

Now, therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, - Apply your heart unto your own experience -

General references

And the house of banqueting, shall thou not enter To sit with them, To eat and to drink.