Ecclesiastes 7:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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 number our days, That we may get us an heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been already forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good: do not all go to one place?

Ecclesiastes 9:2

All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Isaiah 47:7

And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end thereof.

Jeremiah 16:8

And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

Haggai 1:5

Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways,

Malachi 2:2

If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his!

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Deuteronomy 32:29

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

Deuteronomy 32:46

And he said unto them, Set your heart unto all the words which I testify unto you this day; which ye shall command your children, to observe to do all the words of this law.

Philippians 3:19

whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgement;