Ecclesiastes 7:4 - Tree of Life Version

⁴ The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in a house of pleasure.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ 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)

⁴ 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

⁴ The wise heart is in the house that mourns, but the foolish heart is in the house that rejoices.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Anger is better than laughter. For through the sadness of the countenance, the soul of one who offends may be corrected.

Ecclesiastes 7:4 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 13:28

Then Absalom commanded his young men saying, “Now watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine. When I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon!’ then put him to death! Have no fear! Isn’t it I who commanded you? Be strong! Be sons of valor!”

1 Kings 20:16

They marched out at noon, while Ben-Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths—he and the 32 kings allied with him.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said within myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to see what is good.” Yet behold, this too was meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Grief is better than laughter, for though the face is sad, the heart may be glad.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

Better to hear a rebuke from the wise than to listen to the song of fools.

Isaiah 21:4

My heart is bewildered, terror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned into trembling.

Jeremiah 51:39

When they become hot, I will set out a banquet for them and will make them so drunk that they become merry— and then sleep a perpetual sleep and never awake.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Jeremiah 51:57

“I will intoxicate her officials and sages, her governors, deputies, and warriors, and they will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake.” It is a declaration of the King, whose Name is Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Daniel 5:30

On that very night King Belshazzar of the Chaldeans was slain.

Hosea 7:5

On the day of our king, princes become sick from wine. His hand drags scorners along.

Nahum 1:10

For even like tangled thorns they will be consumed, or like drunkards who are drunk, or like stubble that is fully dry.

1 Samuel 25:36

Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was holding a banquet in his house like that of a king—Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was quite drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.

1 Samuel 30:16

So he led him down, and behold, they were scattered over all the area, eating, drinking and feasting because of all the great spoil that they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.