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

'Be assembled, and hear, sons of Jacob, And hearken unto Israel your father.

And the brethren of Joseph see that their father is dead, and say, 'Peradventure Joseph doth hate us, and doth certainly return to us all the evil which we did with him.'

And his sons have gone and made a banquet -- the house of each in his day -- and have sent and called to their three sisters to eat and to drink with them;

Woe to those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!

And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,

Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,

Happy the mourning -- because they shall be comforted.

But the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod,

for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

That

Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, And let my last end be like his!'

If they were wise -- They deal wisely with this; They attend to their latter end:

what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,

Living

and saith unto them, 'Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that ye command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law,

And thou sayest, 'To the age I am mistress,' While thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, Thou hast not remembered the latter end of it.

And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.

General references

A house of banqueting thou dost not enter, To sit with them, to eat and to drink,