Avshalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, Smite Amnon, then kill him; don't be afraid; haven't I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
Ecclesiastes 7:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth and sensual joy. American Standard Version (1901) The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Common English Bible The wise heart is in the house that mourns, but the foolish heart is in the house that rejoices. Catholic Public Domain Version Anger is better than laughter. For through the sadness of the countenance, the soul of one who offends may be corrected. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the countenance the mind of the offender is corrected. |
Avshalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, Smite Amnon, then kill him; don't be afraid; haven't I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
They went out at noon. But Ben-Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.
I said in my heart, *Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;* and behold, this also was vanity.
Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.
I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies.
On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
Avigayil came to Naval; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Naval's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Pelishtim, and out of the land of Yehudah.