Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
While the
King James Version
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Holman Bible
but the heart of fools is in a house of pleasure.
International Standard Version
For the wise person thinks carefully when in mourning, but fools focus their thoughts on pleasure.
A Conservative Version
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
American Standard Version
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Amplified
The heart of the wise [learns when it] is in the house of mourning,
But the heart of fools is [senseless] in the house of pleasure.
Bible in Basic English
The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.
Darby Translation
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools in the house of mirth.
Julia Smith Translation
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; and the heart of the foolish in the house of gladness.
King James 2000
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The heart of the wise [is] in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools [is] in the house of mirth.
Modern King James verseion
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of laughter.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The heart of the wise is in the mourning house; but the heart of the foolish is in the house of mirth.
NET Bible
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of merrymaking.
New Heart English Bible
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
The Emphasized Bible
The heart of the wise, is in the house of mourning, but, the heart of dullards, in the house of mirth.
Webster
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
World English Bible
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Youngs Literal Translation
The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.
Themes
worldly Amusements and pleasures » Indulgence in » A proof of folly
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Indulgence in is » A proof of folly
Interlinear
Leb
Bayith
בּית
Bayith
house, household, home, within, temple, prison, place, family, families , dungeon,
Usage: 2053
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References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 7:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
People Generally Do Not Know What Is Best For Them
3
Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made whole.
4
While the
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a banquet in his house like the banquet of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken; therefore, she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
1 Samuel 30:16
And so he brought him down, and behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and holding a feast because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines and out of the land of Judah.
2 Samuel 13:28
Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon, then kill him. Fear not; have I not commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant.
1 Kings 20:16
And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings that helped him.
Nehemiah 2:2-5
the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? This is nothing else but brokenness of heart. Then I was very sore afraid
Isaiah 21:4
My heart panted; the horror frightened me; the night of my pleasure he has turned into fear unto me.
Isaiah 53:3-4
He is despised and rejected among men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with weakness; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I will place their feasts before them, and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake, said the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep an eternal sleep and shall not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of the hosts.
Daniel 5:1-4
Belshazzar the king made a great banquet to a thousand of his lords, and against the thousand he drank wine.
Daniel 5:30
That same night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was slain.
Hosea 7:5
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with a wineskin; he stretched out his hand with the scorners.
Nahum 1:10
For while they are entwined together as thorns, and while the drunkards shall be drinking, they shall be devoured as stubble full of dryness.
Matthew 8:14-16
And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying in bed and with fever.
Mark 5:38-43
And they came to the house of the prince of the synagogue and saw the tumult and those that wept and wailed greatly.
Mark 6:21-29
And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his princes and tribunes and to the principal people of Galilee;
Luke 7:12-13
Now when he came near 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 from the city were with her.
John 11:31-35
Then the Jews who were with her in the house and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goes unto the grave to weep there.