Ecclesiastes 7:4 - The Scriptures 1998

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

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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.

Ecclesiastes 7:4 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

And Aḇ

1 Kings 20:16

And they went out at noon, while Ben-Haḏ

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, “Come now, let me try you with rejoicing and find out what is good.” But see, that too was futile.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart becomes better.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

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

Isaiah 21:4

My heart reeled, horror overwhelmed me; the night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.

Jeremiah 51:39

“In their heat I prepare their feasts. And I shall make them drunk, so that they rejoice, and sleep a neverending sleep and not awake,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 51:57

“And I shall make her rulers drunk, and her wise men, her governors, and her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a lasting sleep, and not awake,” declares the Sovereign, whose Name is יהוה  of hosts.

Daniel 5:30

In that night Bĕ

Hosea 7:5

“In the day of our sovereign rulers became sick, inflamed with wine. He extended his hand with scoffers.

Nahum 1:10

Though they are as entangled thorns, and as drunkards with their drink, they shall be consumed like stubble thoroughly dried.

1 Samuel 25:36

And Aḇ

1 Samuel 30:16

And he brought him down and saw they were spread out over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Yehuḏ