Ecclesiastes 7:2

The Scriptures 1998

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men. And the living take it to heart.

Cross References

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to number our days, And let us bring the heart to wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise one’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And I also knew that one event befalls them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no more lasting remembrance of the wise than of the fool, since in the days to come all is forgotten. And how does a wise man die? With the fool!

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the event of the sons of men is also the event of beasts – one event befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Indeed, they all have one breath – man has no advantage over beasts. For all is futile.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All are going to one place – all came from the dust, and all return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

And though he lives a thousand years twice over, yet he shall not see goodness. Do not all go to one place?

Ecclesiastes 9:2

It is the same for all: One event to the righteous and to the wrong; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; and to the one slaughtering and to the one not slaughtering. As is the good one, so is the sinner; the one swearing as the one fearing an oath.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one event to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and then – to the dead!

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know naught, nor do they have any more reward, for their remembrance is forgotten.

Isaiah 47:7

“And you said, ‘I am mistress forever,’ so that you did not take these matters to heart, and did not remember the latter end of them.

Jeremiah 16:8

“Do not enter the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.”

Haggai 1:5

And now, thus said יהוה  of hosts, “Consider your ways!

Malachi 2:2

“If you do not hear, and if you do not take it to heart, to give esteem to My Name,” said יהוה  of hosts, “I shall send a curse upon you, and I shall curse your blessings. And indeed, I have cursed them, because you do not take it to heart.

Numbers 23:10

“Who shall count the dust of Yaʽ

Matthew 5:4

“Blessed are those who mourn, because they shall be comforted.

Deuteronomy 32:29

“If they were wise, They would understand this, They would consider their latter end!

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said to them, “Set your heart on all the words with which I warn you today, so that you command your children to guard to do all the Words of this Torah.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their mighty one is their stomach, and their esteem is in their shame – they mind the earthly.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it awaits men to die once, and after this the judgment,