Ecclesiastes 7:2

People Generally Do Not Know What Is Best For Them

¹ A good name is better than a good ointment,
And the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.
² It is better to go to a house of mourning
Than to go to a house of feasting,
Because that is the end of every man,
And the living takes it to heart.
³ Sorrow is better than laughter,
For when a face is sad a heart may be happy.

Take It to Heart

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days,
That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

Genesis 48:1-22

Now it came about after these things that Joseph was told, “Behold, your father is sick.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

Genesis 49:2-33

“Gather together and hear, O sons of Jacob;
And listen to Israel your father.

Genesis 50:15-17

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong which we did to him!”

Numbers 23:10

“Who can count the dust of Jacob,
Or number the fourth part of Israel?
Let me die the death of the upright,
And let my end be like his!”

Deuteronomy 32:29

“Would that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would discern their future!

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said to them, “Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command your sons to observe carefully, even all the words of this law.

Job 1:4-5

His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Isaiah 5:11-12

Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink,
Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!

Isaiah 22:12-14

Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing,
To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.

Isaiah 47:7

“Yet you said, ‘I will be a queen forever.’
These things you did not consider
Nor remember the outcome of them.

Amos 6:3-6

Do you put off the day of calamity,
And would you bring near the seat of violence?

Haggai 1:5

Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways!

Malachi 2:2

If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name,” says the Lord of hosts, “then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart.

Matthew 5:4

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Matthew 14:6-12

But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod,

Romans 6:21-22

Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.

Philippians 3:19

whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

1 Peter 4:3-4

For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.