Ecclesiastes 7:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of everyone, and the living will lay it to heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to heart.

American Standard Version (1901)

² It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

Common English Bible

² It is better to go to a house in mourning than to a house party, because that is everyone’s destiny; and the living should take it to heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² A good name is better than precious ointments, and a day of death is better than a day of birth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:2 Cross References

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise have eyes in their head, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place, all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Even though he should live a thousand years twice over yet enjoy no good—do not all go to one place?

Ecclesiastes 9:2

is vanity, since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to those who sacrifice and those who do not sacrifice. As are the good, so are the sinners; those who swear are like those who shun an oath.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that happens under the sun, that the same fate comes to everyone. Moreover, the hearts of humans are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.

Isaiah 47:7

You said, “I shall be mistress forever,” so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.

Jeremiah 16:8

You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.

Haggai 1:5

Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not lay it to heart.

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the dust cloud of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”

Matthew 5:4

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern what their end would be.

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said to them, “Take to heart all the words that I am giving in witness against you today; give them as a command to your children, so that they may diligently observe all the words of this law.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,