Ecclesiastes 7:2

People Generally Do Not Know What Is Best For Them

¹ A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. ² It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: in that that is the end of all men, and the living taketh it to heart. ³ Vexation is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

Take It to Heart

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.

Genesis 48:1-22

And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick. And he took with him his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 49:2-33

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

Genesis 50:15-17

And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, If now Joseph should be hostile to us, and should indeed requite us all the evil that we did to him!

Numbers 23:10

Who can 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 end be like his!

Deuteronomy 32:29

Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words that I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to take heed to do, all the words of this law.

Job 1:4-5

And his sons went and made a feast in the house of each one on his day; and they sent and invited their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Isaiah 5:11-12

Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after strong drink; that linger till twilight, till wine inflameth them!

Isaiah 22:12-14

And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;

Isaiah 47:7

and thou saidst, I shall be a mistress for ever; so that thou didst not take these things to heart, thou didst not remember the end thereof.

Amos 6:3-6

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

Haggai 1:5

And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.

Malachi 2:2

If ye do not hear, and if ye do not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will even send the curse among you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have already cursed them, because ye do not lay it to heart.

Matthew 5:4

Blessed they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Matthew 14:6-12

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

Romans 6:21-22

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

Philippians 3:19

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

Hebrews 9:27

And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;

1 Peter 4:3-4

For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.