Ecclesiastes 7:2

Legacy Standard Bible

Better to go to a house of mourning Than to go to a house of feasting Because that is the end of all mankind, And the living puts this in his heart.

Cross References

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that the fate of one becomes the fate of all of them.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no remembrance of the wise man along with the fool forever, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how the wise man dies with the fool!

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same fate for each of them. As one dies so dies the other, and they all have the same breath. So there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to the same place. All came from the dust, and all return to the dust.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Even if the other man lives one thousand years twice and does not see good things—do not all go to the same place?”

Ecclesiastes 9:2

It is the same for all. There is one fate for the righteous and for the wicked; for the good, for the clean and for the unclean; for the man who offers a sacrifice and for the one who does not sacrifice. As the good man is, so is the sinner; as the swearer is, so is the one who is afraid to swear.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one fate for all. Furthermore, the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts throughout their lives. Afterwards they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

Isaiah 47:7

“Yet you said, ‘I will be a queen forever.’ These things you did not put on your heart Nor remember the outcome of them.

Jeremiah 16:8

Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink.”

Haggai 1:5

So now, thus says Yahweh of hosts, “Set your heart to consider your ways!

Malachi 2:2

If you do not listen, and if you do not set it upon your heart to give honor to My name,” says Yahweh of hosts, “then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already because you are not setting it upon your heart.

Numbers 23:10

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

Matthew 5:4

¶Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Deuteronomy 32:29

“Would that they were wise, that they had insight into this, That they would understand their future!

Deuteronomy 32:46

and he said to them, “Place in your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command your sons to be careful to do, even all the words of this law.

Philippians 3:19

whose end is destruction, whose god is their stomach and glory is in their shame, who set their thoughts on earthly things.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,