Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
General references
Bible References
Heart
Nehemiah 2:2
And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;
Isaiah 53:3
Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
Matthew 8:14
And when Jesus had come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother in bed, very ill.
Mark 5:38
And they came to the house of the ruler of the Synagogue; and he saw people running this way and that, and weeping and crying loudly.
Luke 7:12
Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.
John 11:31
Then the Jews who were with her in the house, comforting her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, went after her in the belief that she was going to the place of the dead and would be weeping there.
General references
Jeremiah 16:8
And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.