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, sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father.

And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will perhaps hate us, and will certainly repay us all the evil which we did to him.

And his sons went and feasted in the house of each one on 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 to go after strong drink; tarrying in the twilight while wine inflames them!

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

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

Blessed are they 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 the time of life which is past is enough for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, parties, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

That

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

If they were wise, they would understand this; they would consider their latter end!

What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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

And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment,

Living

And he said to them, Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your sons to observe and to do, all the words of this Law.

And you said, I shall be a mistress forever; so you did not lay these things to your heart, nor remembered the latter end of it.

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

General references

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