Ecclesiastes 7:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

(7:6) The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.

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  • 1 Sam 25:36 : 36 So Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he made a feast in his house, like the feast of a King, and Nabals heart was mery within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore shee tolde him nothing, neither lesse nor more, vntil the morning arose.
  • 1 Sam 30:16 : 16 And when he had brought him thither, beholde, they lay scattered abroade vpon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dauncing, because of all the great pray that they had taken out of the lande of the Philistims, and out of the land of Iudah.
  • 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 Now had Absalom commanded his seruants, saying, Marke now when Amnons heart is merry with wine, & when I say vnto you, Smite Amnon, kil him, feare not, for haue not I commanded you? be bold therefore, & play the men.
  • 1 Kgs 20:16 : 16 And they went out at noone: but Ben-hadad did drinke till he was drunken in the tentes, both he and the Kings: for two and thirtie Kings helped him.
  • Neh 2:2-5 : 2 And the king said vnto me, Why is thy coutenance sad, seeing thou art not sicke? this is nothing, but sorow of heart. Then was I sore afrayd, 3 And I said to the King, God saue the King for euer: why should not my countenance be sad, when the citie & house of the sepulchres of my fathers lieth waste, and the gates thereof are deuoured with fire? 4 And the King said vnto me, For what thing doest thou require? Then I prayed to the God of heauen, 5 And sayde vnto the King, If it please the King, and if thy seruant haue found fauour in thy sight, I desire that thou wouldest send me to Iudah vnto the city of the sepulchres of my fathers, that I may buyld it.
  • Isa 21:4 : 4 Mine heart failed: fearefulnesse troubled me: the night of my pleasures hath he turned into feare vnto me.
  • Isa 53:3-4 : 3 He is despised and reiected of men: he is a man full of sorowes and hath experience of infirmities: we hidde as it were our faces from him: he was despised and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely hee hath borne our infirmities, and caried our sorowes: yet wee did iudge him, as plagued, and smitten of God, and humbled.
  • Jer 51:39 : 39 In their heate I will make them feastes, and I wil make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetual sleepe, & not wake, sayth the Lord.
  • Jer 51:57 : 57 And I will make drunke her princes, and her wise men, her dukes, and her nobles, and her strong men: and they shall sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, sayth the King, whose Name is the Lord of hostes.
  • Dan 5:1-4 : 1 King Belshazzar made a great feast to a thousand of his princes, and dranke wine before the thousand. 2 And Belshazzar whiles he tasted the wine, commaunded to bring him the golden and siluer vessels, which his father Nebuchad-nezzar had brought from the Temple in Ierusalem, that the King and his princes, his wiues, and his concubines might drinke therein. 3 Then were brought the golden vessels, that were taken out of the Temple of the Lords house at Ierusalem, and the King and his princes, his wiues and his concubines dranke in them. 4 They drunke wine and praysed the gods of golde, and of siluer, of brasse, of yron, of wood and of stone.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 The same night was Belshazzar the King of the Caldeans slaine.
  • Hos 7:5 : 5 This is the day of our King: the princes haue made him sicke with flagons of wine: he stretcheth out his hand to scorners.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 For he shall come as vnto thornes folden one in another, and as vnto drunkardes in their drunkennesse: they shall be deuoured as stubble fully dryed.
  • Matt 8:14-16 : 14 And when Iesus came to Peters house, he sawe his wiues mother layed downe, and sicke of a feuer. 15 And he touched her hande, and the feuer left her: so she arose, and ministred vnto them. 16 When the Euen was come, they brought vnto him many that were possessed with deuils: and he cast out the spirits with his worde, and healed all that were sicke,
  • Mark 5:38-43 : 38 So hee came vnto the house of the ruler of the Synagogue, and sawe the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. 39 And he went in, and said vnto them, Why make ye this trouble, and weepe? the childe is not dead, but sleepeth. 40 And they laught him to scorne: but hee put them all out, and tooke the father, and the mother of the childe, and them that were with him, and entred in where the childe lay, 41 And tooke the childe by the hand, & saide vnto her, Talitha cumi, which is by interpretation, Mayden, I say vnto thee, arise. 42 And straightway the mayden arose, and walked: for shee was of the age of twelue yeeres, and they were astonied out of measure. 43 And he charged them straitly that no man should knowe of it, and commaunded to giue her meate.
  • Mark 6:21-29 : 21 But the time being conuenient, when Herod on his birth day made a banket to his princes and captaines, and chiefe estates of Galile: 22 And the daughter of the same Herodias came in, & daunced, and pleased Herod, and them that sate at table together, the King sayd vnto the mayde, Aske of me what thou wilt, and I will giue it thee. 23 And he sware vnto her, Whatsoeuer thou shalt aske of me, I will giue it thee, euen vnto the halfe of my kingdome. 24 So she went forth, & said to her mother, What shal I aske? And she said, Iohn Baptists head. 25 Then she came in straightway with haste vnto the King, & asked, saying, I would that thou shouldest giue me euen now in a charger the head of Iohn Baptist. 26 Then the King was very sory: yet for his othes sake, and for their sakes which sate at table with him, he would not refuse her. 27 And immediately the King sent the hangman, and gaue charge that his head shoulde be brought in. So he went and beheaded him in the prison, 28 And brought his head in a charger, and gaue it to the maide, and the maide gaue it to her mother. 29 And when his disciples heard it, they came and tooke vp his body, and put it in a tombe.
  • Luke 7:12-13 : 12 Nowe when hee came neere to the gate of the citie, behold, there was a dead man caried out, who was the onely begotten sonne of his mother, which was a widowe, and much people of the citie was with her. 13 And when the Lord sawe her, he had compassion on her, and said vnto her, Weepe not.
  • John 11:31-35 : 31 The Iewes then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they sawe Marie, that she rose vp hastily, & went out, folowed her, saying, She goeth vnto the graue, to weepe there. 32 Then when Mary was come where Iesus was, and sawe him, she fell downe at his feete, saying vnto him, Lord, if thou haddest bene here, my brother had not bene dead. 33 When Iesus therefore saw her weepe, and the Iewes also weepe which came with her, hee groned in the spirit, and was troubled in himselfe, 34 And saide, Where haue ye layde him? They said vnto him, Lord, come and see. 35 And Iesus wept.

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    5(7:7) Better it is to heare ye rebuke of a wise man, then that a man should heare the song of fooles.

    6(7:8) For like ye noyse of the thornes vnder the pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.

    7(7:9) Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad: and the rewarde destroyeth the heart.

  • Eccl 7:2-3
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    2(7:4) It is better to goe to the house of mourning, then to goe to the house of feasting, because this is the ende of all men: and the liuing shall lay it to his heart.

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  • Prov 14:33
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    33Wisedome resteth in the heart of him that hath vnderstanding, and is knowen in the mids of fooles.

  • Prov 15:13-15
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    13A ioyfull heart maketh a chearefull countenance: but by the sorow of the heart the minde is heauie.

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    15All the dayes of the afflicted are euill: but a good conscience is a continuall feast.

  • Prov 14:13
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    13Euen in laughing the heart is sorowful, and the ende of that mirth is heauinesse.

  • Eccl 10:2
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    2The heart of a wise man is at his right hand: but the heart of a foole is at his left hand.

  • Prov 14:7-9
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    7Depart from the foolish man, when thou perceiuest not in him the lippes of knowledge.

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  • Prov 15:7
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    7The lippes of the wise doe spread abroade knowledge: but ye heart of the foolish doth not so.

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  • Eccl 2:14-16
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    14For the wise mans eyes are in his head, but the foole walketh in darknes: yet I know also that the same condition falleth to them all.

    15Then I thought in mine heart, It befalleth vnto me, as it befalleth to ye foole. Why therefore doe I then labour to be more wise? And I sayd in mine heart, that this also is vanitie.

    16For there shalbe no remembrance of the wise, nor of the foole for euer: for that that now is, in the dayes to come shall all be forgotten; howe dyeth the wise man, as doeth the foole?

  • Prov 15:21
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    21Foolishnes is ioy to him that is destitute of vnderstanding: but a man of vnderstanding walketh vprightly.

  • Eccl 1:17-18
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    17And I gaue mine heart to knowe wisdome and knowledge, madnes and foolishnes: I knew also that this is a vexation of the spirit.

    18For in the multitude of wisedome is much griefe: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorowe.

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    24The crowne of the wise is their riches, and the follie of fooles is foolishnes.

  • Prov 18:2
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    2A foole hath no delite in vnderstanding: but that his heart may be discouered.

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    5O ye foolish men, vnderstand wisedome, and ye, O fooles, be wise in heart.

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    17The wordes of the wise are more heard in quietnes, then the crye of him that ruleth among fooles.

  • Eccl 2:1-3
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    1I said in mine heart, Goe to nowe, I will proue thee with ioy: therefore take thou pleasure in pleasant things: and beholde, this also is vanitie.

    2I saide of laughter, Thou art mad: and of ioy, What is this that thou doest?

    3I sought in mine heart to giue my selfe to wine, and to leade mine heart in wisdome, and to take holde of follie, till I might see where is that goodnesse of the children of men, which they enioy vnder the sunne: the whole nomber of the dayes of their life.

  • Prov 12:23
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    23A wise man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of the fooles publisheth foolishnes.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3The foolishnesse of a man peruerteth his way, and his heart freateth against the Lord.

  • Eccl 6:8
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    8For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?

  • Prov 18:15
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    15A wise heart getteth knowledge, and the eare of the wise seeketh learning.

  • Prov 12:15
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    15The way of a foole is right in his owne eyes: but he that heareth counsell, is wise.

  • Prov 17:22
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    22A ioyfull heart causeth good health: but a sorowfull minde dryeth the bones.

  • Prov 16:22-23
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    22Vnderstading is welspring of life vnto them that haue it: and the instruction of fooles is folly.

    23The heart of the wise guideth his mouth wisely, and addeth doctrine to his lippes.

  • Prov 17:16
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    16Wherefore is there a price in the hand of the foole to get wisdome, and he hath none heart?

  • Prov 11:29
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    29He that troubleth his owne house, shall inherite the winde, and the foole shalbe seruant to the wise in heart.

  • Prov 10:23
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    23It is as a pastime to a foole to doe wickedly: but wisedome is vnderstanding to a man.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11A foole powreth out all his minde: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterward.

  • Prov 24:7
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    7Wisdome is hie to a foole: therefore he can not open his mouth in the gate.

  • Prov 15:24
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    24The way of life is on high to the prudent, to auoyde from hell beneath.

  • Prov 14:16
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    16A wise man feareth, and departeth from euill: but a foole rageth, and is carelesse.

  • Eccl 4:13
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    13Better is a poore and wise childe, then an olde and foolish King, which will no more be admonished.

  • Prov 13:16
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    16Euery wise man will worke by knowledge: but a foole will spread abroade folly.

  • Prov 1:7
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    7The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.