Ecclesiastes 7:4

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

Then Absalom commanded his servants, saying: "Observe when Amnon will have become drunk with wine. And when I say to you, 'Strike and kill him!' do not be afraid. For it is I who commands you. Be strong and valiant men."

1 Kings 20:16

And they went out at midday. But Benhadad was drinking; he was inebriated in his pavilion, and the thirty-two kings with him, who had arrived in order to assist him.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart: "I will go forth and overflow with delights, and I will enjoy good things." And I saw that this, too, is emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

It is better to go to a house of mourning, than to a house of feasting. For in the former, we are admonished about the end of all things, so that the living consider what may be in the future.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

The heart of the wise is a place of mourning, and the heart of the foolish is a place of rejoicing.

Isaiah 21:4

My heart withered. The darkness stupefied me. Babylon, my beloved, has become a wonder to me.

Jeremiah 51:39

In their heat, I will give them a drink, and I will inebriate them, so that they become drowsy, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and do not rise up, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:57

"And I will inebriate her leaders, and her wise ones, and her military rulers, and her civil rulers, and her strong ones. And they will sleep an everlasting sleep, and they will not awaken," says the King: the Lord of hosts is his name.

Daniel 5:30

That same night, king Belshazzar the Chaldean was killed.

Hosea 7:5

On the day of our king, the leaders began to be mad with wine; he extended his hand with those who fabricate illusions.

Nahum 1:10

For just as thorns entwine one another, so also, while they are feasting and drinking together, they will be consumed like stubble that is completely dry.

1 Samuel 25:36

Then Abigail went to Nabal. And behold, he was holding a feast for himself in his house, like the feast of a king. And the heart of Nabal was cheerful. For he was greatly inebriated. And she did not reveal a word to him, small or great, until morning.

1 Samuel 30:16

And when he had led him, behold, they were stretched out on the face of the land everywhere, eating and drinking and celebrating, as if it were a feast day, because of all the prey and spoils that they had taken from the land of the Philistines, and from the land of Judah.