Ecclesiastes 7:2 - English Standard Version 2016

² It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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 will lay it to his heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² 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 will lay it to heart.

American Standard Version (1901)

² 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 will lay it to his heart.

Common English Bible

² It is better to go to a house in mourning than to a house party, because that is everyone’s destiny; and the living should take it to heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² A good name is better than precious ointments, and a day of death is better than a day of birth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:2 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 90:12

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

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place?

Ecclesiastes 9:2

It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

Isaiah 47:7

You said, “I shall be mistress forever,” so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.

Jeremiah 16:8

You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.

Haggai 1:5

Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me 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 understand this; they would discern their latter end!

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,