Ecclesiastes 7:3 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

³ Good is grief above laughter: for in the illness of the face the heart shall be good.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better and gains gladness. [II Cor. 7:10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad.

Common English Bible

³ Aggravation is better than merriment because a sad face may lead to a glad heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ It is better to go to a house of mourning, than to a house of feasting. For in the former, we are admonished about the end of all things, so that the living consider what may be in the future.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.

Ecclesiastes 7:3 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 119:67

Before I shall be humbled I go astray: and now I watched thy word.

Psalm 119:71

Good for me that thou didst humble me, so that I shall learn thy laws.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

To laughter I said, It is mad: and to gladness, What did this?

Ecclesiastes 7:4

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; and the heart of the foolish in the house of gladness.

Daniel 10:19

And he will say, Thou shalt not fear, O man of desires: peace to thee; be strong, and be strong. And in his speaking with me I was strengthened, and saying, My lord shall speak; for thou didst strengthen me.

Luke 6:21

Happy the hungering now: for ye shall be satisfied. Happy the weeping now: for ye shall laugh.

Luke 6:25

Woe to you having been filled for ye shall hunger. Woe to you laughing now! for ye shall grieve and weep.

2 Corinthians 4:17

For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;