Ecclesiastes 7:4

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Hosea 7:5

The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.

Jeremiah 51:57

And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men and her captains and her rulers and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an everlasting sleep and shall awake no more, saith the king whose name is Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 51:39

In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 21:4

My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

1 Kings 20:16

And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself drunk in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were come to help him.

2 Samuel 13:28

And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying: Take notice when Amnon shall be drunk with wine, and when I shall say to you: Strike him, and kill him; fear not, for it is I that command you. Take courage, and be valiant men.

1 Samuel 30:16

And when he had brought him, behold they were lying spread upon all the ground, eating and drinking, and as it were keeping a festival day, for all the prey, and the spoils which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda.

1 Samuel 25:36

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

Nahum 1:10

For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

The heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of fools where there is mirth.