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
The king asked me, "Why do you look so troubled, since you're not ill? This cannot be anything else but troubles of the heart."
Isaiah 53:3
"He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, intimately familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces; and we despised him and did not value him.
Matthew 8:14
When Jesus went into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying in bed, sick with a fever.
Mark 5:38
When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw mass confusion. People were crying and sobbing loudly.
Luke 7:12
As he approached the entrance to the city, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother's only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was with her.
John 11:31
When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.
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Jeremiah 16:8
Don't go to a banquet to sit with people to eat and drink."