Ecclesiastes 7:1-6 - People Generally Do Not Know What Is Best For Them

¹ A good name is above good oil, and the day of death above the day of birth. ² Good to go to the house of mourning rather than to go to the house of drinking, in that it is the end of every man; and he living shall give to his heart. ³ Good is grief above laughter: for in the illness of the face the heart shall be good. ⁴ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; and the heart of the foolish in the house of gladness. ⁵ Good to hear the reproof of the wise one, above a man hearing the song of the foolish: ⁶ For as the voice of thorns under the pot, so the laughter of the foolish one. Also this is vanity.