Ecclesiastes 7:2

New American Bible - revised edition

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, For that is the end of every mortal, and the living should take it to heart.

Cross References

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to count our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

Wise people have eyes in their heads, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I knew that the same lot befalls both.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

The wise person will have no more abiding remembrance than the fool; for in days to come both will have been forgotten. How is it that the wise person dies like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the lot of mortals and the lot of beasts is the same lot: The one dies as well as the other. Both have the same life breath. Human beings have no advantage over beasts, but all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

Both go to the same place; both were made from the dust, and to the dust they both return.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Should such a one live twice a thousand years and not enjoy those goods, do not both go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Everything is the same for everybody: the same lot for the just and the wicked, for the good, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who offers sacrifice and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who takes an oath, so it is for the one who fears an oath.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

Among all the things that are done under the sun, this is the worst, that there is one lot for all. Hence the hearts of human beings are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts during life; and afterward—to the dead!

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they are to die, but the dead no longer know anything. There is no further recompense for them, because all memory of them is lost.

Isaiah 47:7

You said, “I shall remain always, a sovereign mistress forever!” You did not take these things to heart, but disregarded their outcome.

Jeremiah 16:8

Do not enter a house of feasting to sit eating and drinking with them.

Haggai 1:5

Now thus says the Lord of hosts: Reflect on your experience!

Malachi 2:2

And if you do not take to heart giving honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, I will send a curse upon you and your blessing I will curse. In fact, I have already cursed it, because you do not take it to heart.

Numbers 23:10

Who has ever counted the dust of Jacob, who numbered Israel’s dust-cloud? May I die the death of the just, may my end be like theirs!

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they had insight they would realize this, they would understand their end:

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said to them, Take to heart all the words that I am giving in witness against you today, words you should command your children, that they may observe carefully every word of this law.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their “shame.” Their minds are occupied with earthly things.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,