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
Wherefore the king said to me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was very greatly afraid,
Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Matthew 8:14
And when Jesus had come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick with a fever.
Mark 5:38
And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
Luke 7:12
Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and many people of the city were with her.
John 11:31
The Jews then who were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary that she rose hastily, and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth to the grave to weep there.
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Jeremiah 16:8
Also thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.