Ecclesiastes 7:2

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of a feast; for in that house of mourning the end of all men is warned of, and a man living thinketh, what is to coming [or to come].

Cross References

Psalm 90:12

Make thy right hand so known; and make men learned in heart by wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The eyes of a wise man be in his head, a fool goeth in darknesses; and I learned, that one perishing was of ever either.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For the mind of a wise man shall not be, in like manner as neither that of a fool, without end, and [the] times to coming [or to come] shall cover all things altogether with forgetting; a learned man dieth in like manner as an unlearned man.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

Therefore one is the perishing of man and of beasts, and even condition is of ever either; as a man dieth, so and those beasts die; all those breathe in like manner, and a man hath nothing more than a beast. All things be subject to vanity,

Ecclesiastes 3:20

and all things go to one place; those be made of earth, and those turn again altogether into earth.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

also though he live two thousand years, and useth not [the] goods; whether all things hasten not to one place?

Ecclesiastes 9:2

But all things be kept uncertain into the time to coming [or to come]; for all things befall evenly to a just [or rightwise] man and to a wicked man, to a good man and to an evil man, to a clean man and to an unclean man, to a man offering offerings and sacrifices, and to a man despising sacrifices; as a good man, so and a sinner; as a forsworn man, so and he that greatly sweareth truth.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This thing is the worst among all things, that be done under the sun, that the same thing befall to all men; wherefore and the hearts of the sons of men be filled with malice and with despising in their life; and after these things, they shall be led down into hells [or to hell].

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For they that live know that they shall die; but dead men know nothing more, neither have meed further; for their mind is given to forgetting.

Isaiah 47:7

and thou saidest, Without end I shall be [a] lady; thou puttedest not these things on thine heart, neither thou bethoughtest on thy last thing.

Jeremiah 16:8

And thou shalt not enter into the house of feast, that thou sit with them, and eat, and drink.

Haggai 1:5

And now the Lord God of hosts saith these things, Put ye your hearts on your ways.

Malachi 2:2

If ye will hear, and if ye will not put on the heart, that ye give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I shall send neediness into you, and I shall curse your blessings; and I shall curse them, for ye have not put on the heart.

Numbers 23:10

Who may number the dust, that is, the kindred, of Jacob, and who may know the number of the generation of Israel? My life die in the death of just [or rightwise] men, and my last things be made like them!

Matthew 5:4

Blessed be mild men, for they shall wield the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:29

I would that they savoured, and understood, and purveyed the last things.

Deuteronomy 32:46

and said to them, Put ye your hearts into all the words which I witness to you today, that ye command to your sons, to keep, and to do those [or them], and to fulfill all things that be written in the book of this law;

Philippians 3:19

whose end is death, whose god is the womb, and the glory in [the] confusion of them, that savour [or that understand] earthly things.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is ordained to men, once to die, but after this is the doom,