Ecclesiastes 7:4

Coverdale Bible (1535)

The herte of ye wyse is in the mournynge house, but the hert of the foolish is in the house of myrth.

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  • 1 Sam 25:36 : 36 But whan Abigail came to Nabal, beholde, he had prepared a feast in his house like a kynges feast, and his hert was mery, for he was very dronken. And she tolde him nothinge, nether small ner greate vntyll ye cleare mornynge.
  • 1 Sam 30:16 : 16 And he broughte the downe, and beholde, they were scatred vpon all ye grounde, eatinge and drynkynge, and kepynge holy daye, and were makinge mery chere, because of all the greate spoyles that they had taken out of the londe of the Philistynes and of Iuda.
  • 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 But Absalom commaunded his yongemen, and sayde: Take hede whan Ammon is mery with wyne (and I saye vnto you: Smyte Ammon, and slaye him) that ye be not afrayed: for I haue commaunded you, be stronge, and playe the men.
  • 1 Kgs 20:16 : 16 and they wente out in the noone daye. As for Benadab, he dranke and was dronken in the pauylion with the two & thirtie kynges which were come to helpe him.
  • Neh 2:2-5 : 2 Then sayde ye kynge vnto me: Why lokest thou so sadly? Thou art not sicke, that is not ye matter, but thou art heuy harted. Neuertheles I was sore afrayed, 3 & sayde vnto the kynge: God saue the kynges life for euer, shulde I not loke sadly? the cite of my fathers buryall lyeth wayest, & the portes therof are consumed wt the fyre. 4 Then sayde the kynge vnto me: What is the thy request? Then made I my prayer to the God of heaue, 5 and sayde vnto the kynge: yf it please the kynge, and yf thy seruaunt be fauoured in thy sighte, I beseke the sende me in to Iuda vnto ye cite of my fathers buryall, that I maye buylde it.
  • Isa 21:4 : 4 Myne herte paunted, I trembled for feare. The darcknesse made me fearfull in my mynde.
  • Isa 53:3-4 : 3 He shalbe the most symple & despised of all, which yet hath good experience of sorowes & infirmities. We shal reken him so symple & so vyle, that we shal hyde oure faces fro him. 4 Howbeit (of a treuth) he only taketh awaye oure infirmite, & beareth oure payne: Yet we shal iudge him, as though he were plaged and cast downe of God:
  • Jer 51:39 : 39 In their heate I shal set drynke before the, & they shalbe droncken for ioye: Then shal they slepe an euerlastinge slepe, & neuer wake, saieth the LORDE.
  • Jer 51:57 : 57 Yee (saieth the LORDE) I will make their prynces, their wyse men, their chefe rulers & all their worthies, droncke: so that they shal slepe an euerlastinge slepe, and neuer wake: Thus saieth the kinge, whose name is ye LORDE of hoostes.
  • Dan 5:1-4 : 1 Balthasar the kynge made a greate bancket to his thousande lordes: withall these thousande he made greate cheare, 2 and when he was dronken wt wyne, he commaunded to brynge him ye golden and syluer vessel, which his father Nabuchodonosor had taken out of the temple at Ierusalem: that the kynge and his lordes (with his quene and concubynes) might drike therout. 3 So they brought the golden vessel, that was take out of the temple of the LORDES house at Ierusalem. Then the kynge and his lordes with his quene and concubines dronke out of them. 4 They dronke wyne, and praysed their Idols of golde, syluer, copper, yron, wodde and stone.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 The very same night was Balthasar the kynge off the Caldees slayne,
  • Hos 7:5 : 5 Euen so goeth it this daye with oure kinges and prynces, for they begynne to be woode droncken thorow wyne: they vse familiarite with soch as disceaue the.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 For like as the thornes that sticke together, and as the drye strawe, so shal the dronckardes be consumed together, euen when they be full.
  • Matt 8:14-16 : 14 And Iesus went in to Peters housse, and sawe hys wyues mother lyinge sicke of a feuer: 15 so he touched her hande, and the feuer left hir: and she arose, and ministred vnto them. 16 When the euen was come, they brought vnto him many that were possessed with deuylls. And he cast out ye spirites with a worde, & healed all that were sicke,
  • Mark 5:38-43 : 38 And he came in to the ruler of the synagoges house, and sawe the busynes, and them that wepte and wayled greatly: 39 and he wente in, and sayde vnto them: Why make ye this a doo, and wepe? The mayde is not deed, but slepeth. 40 And they laughed him to scorne And he droue them all out, and toke the father and mother of the mayde, and them that were with him, and wente in where the mayden laye. 41 And he toke the mayde by the honde, and sayde vnto her: Thabitha Cumi (which is by interpretaeion) Mayde, I saye vnto the: Aryse. 42 And immediatly the mayden arose, and walked. She was twolue yeare olde, and they were astonnyed out of measure. 43 And he charged them strately, that no man shulde knowe of it, and sayde vnto them, that they shulde geue her to eate.
  • Mark 6:21-29 : 21 And there came a conuenient daye, that Herode on his byrth daye made a supper to the lordes, captaynes and chefe estates of Galile. 22 Then the daughter of Herodias came in, and daunsed, and pleased Herode, and them that sat at the table. Then sayde the kynge vnto ye damsel: Axe of me what thou wilt, I wil geue it the. 23 And he sware vnto her: What soeuer thou shalt axe of me, I wil geue it the, euen vnto ye one half of my kyngdome. 24 She wente forth, and sayde vnto hir mother: what shal I axe? She sayde: Ihon baptistes heade. 25 And immediatly she wete in to the kinge with haist, and sayde: I will that thou geue me straight waye in a platter the heed of Ihon the baptist. 26 Then the kynge was sory: Yet for the oothes sake and the that sat at the table, he wolde not saye her nay. 27 And immediatly he sent the hangman, and commaunded his heade to be brought in. So he wete, and heeded him in the preson, 28 and brought his heade in a platter, and gaue it vnto the damsell, and the damsell gaue it vnto hir mother. 29 And whan his disciples herde that, they came and toke his body, & layed it in a graue.
  • Luke 7:12-13 : 12 Whan he came nye to the gate of the cite, beholde, there was caried out one deed, which was the onely sonne of his mother, and she was a wyddowe, and moch people of the cite wente with her. 13 And whan the LORDE sawe her, he had copassion on her, and sayde vnto her: Wepe not.
  • John 11:31-35 : 31 The Iewes that were wt her in the house and comforted her, whan they sawe Mary, that she rose vp haistely, & wente out, they folowed her, & saide: She goeth to the graue, to wepe there. 32 Now wha Mary came where Iesus was & sawe him, she fell downe at his fete, & sayde vnto hi: LORDE, yf thou haddest bene here, my brother had not bene deed. 33 Wha Iesus sawe her wepe, & the Iewes wepinge also yt came wt her, he groned in the sprete, & was sory wt in himself, 34 & sayde: Where haue ye layed him? They sayde: LORDE come, & se it. 35 And Iesus wepte.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 7:5-7
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    5It is better to geue eare to the chastenynge of a wyse man, then to heare the songe of fooles.

    6For the laughinge of fooles is like ye crackynge of thornes vnder a pott. And yt is but a vayne thinge.

    7Who so doeth wronge, maketh a wyse man to go out of his witt, and destroyeth a gentle hert.

  • Eccl 7:2-3
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    2It is better to go in to an house of mournynge, then in to a bancket house. For there is the ende of all men, and he that is lyuinge, taketh it to herte.

    3It is better to be sory then to laugh, for whe the countenaunce is heuy, the herte is ioyfull.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33Wy?dome resteth in the herte of him that hath vnderstondinge, and he wyll teach them that are vnlerned.

  • Prov 15:13-15
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    13A mery herte maketh a chearfull countenaunce, but an vnquyet mynde maketh it heuy.

    14A wyse herte wil seke after knowlege, but ye mouth of fooles medleth with foolishnesse.

    15All the dayes of the poore are miserable, but a quyete herte is as a cotynuall feast.

  • Prov 14:13
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    13The herte is soroufull euen in laughter, and the ende of myrth is heuynesse.

  • Eccl 10:2
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    2A wyse mans hert is vpon the right hande, but a fooles hert is vpon the left.

  • Prov 14:7-9
    3 verses
    77%

    7Se yt thou medle not with a foole, & do as though thou haddest no knowlege.

    8The wy?dome of him that hath vnderstondinge is, to take hede vnto his waye, but the foolishnesse of the vnwyse disceaueth.

    9Fooles make but a sporte of synne, but there is fauourable loue amoge the rightuous.

  • Prov 15:7
    77%

    7A wyse mouth poureth out knowlege, but ye herte of the foolish doth not so.

  • Eccl 7:25
    77%

    25I applied my mynde also vnto knowlege, and to seke out sciece, wisdome and vnderstondinge: to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly, and the erroure of dotinge fooles.

  • Eccl 2:14-16
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    76%

    14For a wyse man beareth his eyes aboute in his heade, but the foole goeth in the darknesse. I perceaued also that they both had one ende.

    15Then thought I in my mynde: Yf it happen vnto the foole as it doth vnto me, what nedeth me then to laboure eny more for wy?dome? So I confessed within my harte, that this also was but vanite.

    16For the wyse are euer as litle in remembraunce as the foolish, and all the dayes for to come shalbe forgotten, yee the wyse man dyeth as well as ye foole.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21A foole reioyseth in foolish thinges, but a wyse man loketh well to his owne goinges.

  • Eccl 1:17-18
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    17for there vnto I applyed my mynde: yt I might knowe what were wy?dome & vnderstodinge, what were error & foolishnes. And I perceaued yt this also was but a vexacion of mynde:

    18for where moch wy?dome is, there is also greate trauayle & disquietnes: & ye more knowlege a man hath, the more is his care.

  • Eccl 7:9
    75%

    9Be not haistely angrie in yi mynde, for wrath resteth in the bosome of a foole.

  • Prov 14:24
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    24Riches are an ornament vnto the wyse, but the ignoraunce of fooles is very foolishnesse.

  • Prov 18:2
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    2A foole hath no delyte in vnderstodinge, but only in those thinges wherin his herte reioyseth.

  • Prov 17:24
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    24Wy?dome shyneth in ye face of him yt hath vnderstondinge, but ye eyes of fooles wandre thorow out all lodes.

  • Prov 10:8
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    8A wyse man wil receaue warnynge, but a foole wil sooner be smytten in the face.

  • Prov 8:5
    75%

    5Take hede vnto knowlege o ye ignoraut, be wyse in herte o ye fooles.

  • Eccl 9:17
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    17A wise mans councell that is folowed in sylence, is farre aboue the crienge of a captaine amoge fooles.

  • Eccl 2:1-3
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    74%

    1The sayde I thus in my hert: Now go to, I wil take myne ease & haue good dayes. But lo, that was vanite also:

    2in so moch that I sayde vnto laughter: thou art madd, and to myrth: what doest thou?

    3So I thought in my herte, to withdrawe my flesh from wyne, to applye my mynde vnto wy?dome, and to comprehede foolishnes vntill the tyme that (amonge all ye thinges which are vnder ye Sonne) I might se what were best for men to do, so longe as they lyue vnder heauen.

  • Prov 12:23
    74%

    23He that hath vnderstodinge, can hyde his wysdome: but an vndiscrete herte telleth out his foolishnesse.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3Foolishnesse maketh a man to go out of his waye, & then is his herte vnpacient agaynst the LORDE.

  • Eccl 6:8
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    8For what hath the wyse more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore, that he knoweth to walke before the lyuynge?

  • Prov 18:15
    74%

    15A wyse herte laboureth for knowlege, and a prudent eare seketh vnderstondinge.

  • Prov 12:15
    74%

    15Loke what a foole taketh in honde, he thinketh it well done: but he that is wyse, wyl be couceled.

  • Prov 17:22
    74%

    22A mery herte maketh a lusty age, but a sorowfull mide dryeth vp ye bones.

  • Prov 16:22-23
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    22Vnderstondinge is a well of life vnto him yt hath it, as for ye chastenynge of fooles, it is but foolishnesse.

    23The herte of the wyse enfourmeth his mouth, and amendeth ye doctryne in his lyppes.

  • Prov 17:16
    73%

    16What helpeth it to geue a foole money in his hode, where as he hath no mynde to bye wy?dome?

  • Prov 11:29
    73%

    29Who so maketh disquyetnesse in his owne house, he shal haue wynde for his heretage, and the foole shal be seruaunt to the wyse.

  • Prov 10:23
    73%

    23A foole doth wickedly & maketh but a sporte of it: neuertheles it is wysdome for a man to bewarre of soch.

  • Prov 29:11
    73%

    11A foole poureth out his sprete alltogether, but a wyse man kepeth it in till afterwarde.

  • Prov 24:7
    73%

    7Wy?dome is an hie thinge, yee eue to ye foole, for he darre not ope his mouth in ye gate.

  • Prov 15:24
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    24The waye of life ledeth vnto heaue, yt a man shulde bewarre of hell beneth.

  • Prov 14:16
    73%

    16A wyse man, feareth, and departeth from euell, but a foole goeth on presumptuously.

  • Eccl 4:13
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    13A poore childe beynge wyse, is better then an olde kinge, that doteth, and can not bewarre in tyme to come.

  • Prov 13:16
    72%

    16A wyse man doth all thinges with discrecion, but a foole wil declare his foly.

  • Prov 1:7
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    7The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wysdome. But fooles despyse wysdome and nurtoure.