Ecclesiastes 7:4

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Hosea 7:5

On the day of our king the rulers made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He stretched out his hand with scoffers.

Daniel 5:30

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

Jeremiah 51:57

And I will make drunk her rulers and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 51:39

When they are heated, I will make their feast. And I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says LORD.

Isaiah 21:4

My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

1 Kings 20:16

And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

2 Samuel 13:28

And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Notice ye now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Smite Amnon, then kill him. Fear not; have I not commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant.

1 Samuel 30:16

And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of

1 Samuel 25:36

And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

Nahum 1:10

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. And, behold, this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

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

Ecclesiastes 7:5

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