Ecclesiastes 7:2

Tree of Life Version

Better to go to a house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, since that is the end of all mankind —and the living should take it to heart.

Cross References

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, so that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

A wise man has his eyes in his head, while the fool walks in the darkness. Yet, I also came to realize that the same destiny befalls them both.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For the wise man, together with the fool, is not remembered forever. For in the days to come both will be forgotten. Alas, the wise, just like the fool, must die!

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the destiny of humankind and the destiny of animals are one and the same. As one dies, so dies the other. Both have the same breath—a human has no advantage over an animal—both are fleeting.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

Both go to one place. Both were taken from the dust, and both return to the dust.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Even if the other man were to live a thousand years twice and never enjoy good things—do not all go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Everyone shares the same destiny: for the righteous and the wicked; for the good, the ritually clean and the defiled; for one who sacrifices and one who does not sacrifice; as the good person so the sinner; as the one who swears like the one who fears an oath.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is a misery in everything done under the sun: that the same destiny awaits everyone. Moreover, the hearts of all humans are full of evil, and folly is in their hearts during their lives—after that they die.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, even the memory of them is forgotten.

Isaiah 47:7

You said, “Forever, I will be the eternal mistress-queen!” You did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.

Jeremiah 16:8

“You must not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink”

Haggai 1:5

But now,” thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Set your heart on your ways!

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, and if you will not take to heart to give glory to My Name” —says Adonai-Tzva’ot— “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, indeed I have cursed them, because you did not take it to heart.

Numbers 23:10

Who can count Jacob’s dust? Who can number a fourth of Israel? Let my soul 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

“If they were wise, they would discern this, they would understand their hereafter.

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said to them, “Put in your hearts all the words that I call as witness against you today—that you may command your children to keep and do all the words of this Torah.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction—their god is their belly and their glory is in their shame. They set their minds on earthly things.)

Hebrews 9:27

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