Ecclesiastes 7:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth and sensual joy.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Common English Bible

⁴ The wise heart is in the house that mourns, but the foolish heart is in the house that rejoices.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Anger is better than laughter. For through the sadness of the countenance, the soul of one who offends may be corrected.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the countenance the mind of the offender is corrected.

Ecclesiastes 7:4 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Watch when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not be afraid; have I not myself commanded you? Be courageous and valiant.”

1 Kings 20:16

They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the thirty-two kings allied with him.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself, “Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But again, this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made glad.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.

Isaiah 21:4

My mind reels; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

Jeremiah 51:39

When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink and make them drunk, until they become merry and then sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make her officials and her sages drunk, also her governors, her deputies, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.

Hosea 7:5

On the day of our king the officials became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.

Nahum 1:10

Like thorns they are entangled; like drunkards they are drunk; they are consumed like dry straw.

1 Samuel 25:36

Abigail came to Nabal; he was holding a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk, so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.

1 Samuel 30:16

When he had taken him down, they were spread out all over the ground, eating and drinking and dancing, because of the great amount of spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.