Ecclesiastes 7:2 - New International Version (Anglicised)

² It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:2 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise have eyes in their heads, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realise that the same fate overtakes them both.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered; the days have already come when both have been forgotten. Like the fool, the wise too must die!

Ecclesiastes 3:19

Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: as one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 9:2

All share a common destiny – the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.

Isaiah 47:7

You said, “I am for ever – the eternal queen!” But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen.

Jeremiah 16:8

‘And do not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink.

Haggai 1:5

Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Give careful thought to your ways.

Malachi 2:2

If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honour my name,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honour me.

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my final end be like theirs!’

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said to them, ‘Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.

Philippians 3:19

Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,