Ecclesiastes 7:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

The heart of the wise `is' in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.

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  • 1 Sam 25:36 : 36 And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal `is' glad within him, and he `is' drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning.
  • 1 Sam 30:16 : 16 And he bringeth him down, and lo, they are spread out over the face of all the earth, eating, and drinking, and feasting, with all the great spoil which they have taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
  • 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 And Absalom commandeth his young men, saying, `See, I pray thee, when the heart of Amnon `is' glad with wine, and I have said unto you, Smite Amnon, that ye have put him to death; fear not; is it not because I have commanded you? be strong, yea, become sons of valour.'
  • 1 Kgs 20:16 : 16 and they go out at noon, and Ben-Hadad is drinking -- drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings, helping him.
  • Neh 2:2-5 : 2 and the king saith to me, `Wherefore `is' thy face sad, and thou not sick? this is nothing except sadness of heart;' and I fear very much, 3 and say to the king, `Let the king to the age live! wherefore should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of the graves of my fathers, `is' a waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?' 4 And the king saith to me, `For what art thou seeking?' and I pray unto the God of the heavens, 5 and say to the king, `If to the king `it be' good, and if thy servant be pleasing before thee, that thou send me unto Judah, unto the city of the graves of my fathers, and I built it.'
  • Isa 21:4 : 4 Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,
  • Isa 53:3-4 : 3 He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains -- he hath carried them, And we -- we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
  • Jer 51:39 : 39 In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not -- an affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Jer 51:57 : 57 And I have caused its princes to drink, And its wise men, its governors, And its prefects, and its mighty ones, And they have slept a sleep age-during, And they awake not -- an affirmation of the king, Jehovah of Hosts `is' His name.
  • Dan 5:1-4 : 1 Belshazzar the king hath made a great feast to a thousand of his great men, and before the thousand he is drinking wine; 2 Belshazzar hath said -- while tasting the wine -- to bring in the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple that `is' in Jerusalem, that drink with them may the king, and his great men, his wives, and his concubines. 3 Then they have brought in the vessels of gold that had been taken out of the temple of the house of God that `is' in Jerusalem, and drunk with them have the king and his great men, his wives and his concubines; 4 they have drunk wine, and have praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,
  • Hos 7:5 : 5 A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves `with' the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 For while princes `are' perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.
  • Matt 8:14-16 : 14 And Jesus having come into the house of Peter, saw his mother-in-law laid, and fevered, 15 and he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose, and was ministering to them. 16 And evening having come, they brought to him many demoniacs, and he did cast out the spirits with a word, and did heal all who were ill,
  • Mark 5:38-43 : 38 and he cometh to the house of the chief of the synagogue, and seeth a tumult, much weeping and wailing; 39 and having gone in he saith to them, `Why do ye make a tumult, and weep? the child did not die, but doth sleep; 40 and they were laughing at him. And he, having put all forth, doth take the father of the child, and the mother, and those with him, and goeth in where the child is lying, 41 and, having taken the hand of the child, he saith to her, `Talitha cumi;' which is, being interpreted, `Damsel (I say to thee), arise.' 42 And immediately the damsel arose, and was walking, for she was twelve years `old'; and they were amazed with a great amazement, 43 and he charged them much, that no one may know this thing, and he said that there be given to her to eat.
  • Mark 6:21-29 : 21 And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee, 22 and the daughter of that Herodias having come in, and having danced, and having pleased Herod and those reclining (at meat) with him, the king said to the damsel, `Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give to thee,' 23 and he sware to her -- `Whatever thou mayest ask me, I will give to thee -- unto the half of my kingdom.' 24 And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;' 25 and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, `I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.' 26 And the king -- made very sorrowful -- because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away, 27 and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought, 28 and he having gone, beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head upon a plate, and did give it to the damsel, and the damsel did give it to her mother; 29 and having heard, his disciples came and took up his corpse, and laid it in the tomb.
  • Luke 7:12-13 : 12 and as he came nigh to the gate of the city, then, lo, one dead was being carried forth, an only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a great multitude of the city was with her. 13 And the Lord having seen her, was moved with compassion towards her, and said to her, `Be not weeping;'
  • John 11:31-35 : 31 the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- `She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.' 32 Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;' 33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said, 34 `Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, `Sir, come and see;' 35 Jesus wept.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 7:5-7
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    5Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than `for' a man to hear a song of fools,

    6For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So `is' the laughter of a fool, even this `is' vanity.

    7Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart.

  • Eccl 7:2-3
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    2Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth `it' unto his heart.

    3Better `is' sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33In the heart of the intelligent wisdom doth rest. And in the midst of fools it is known.

  • Prov 15:13-15
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    79%

    13A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten.

    14The heart of the intelligent seeketh knowledge, And the mouth of fools enjoyeth folly.

    15All the days of the afflicted `are' evil, And gladness of heart `is' a perpetual banquet.

  • Prov 14:13
    78%

    13Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy `is' affliction.

  • Eccl 10:2
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    2The heart of the wise `is' at his right hand, And the heart of a fool at his left.

  • Prov 14:7-9
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    7Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.

    8The wisdom of the prudent `is' to understand his way, And the folly of fools `is' deceit.

    9Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright -- a pleasing thing.

  • Prov 15:7
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    7The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools `is' not right.

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

  • Eccl 2:14-16
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    76%

    14The wise! -- his eyes `are' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

    15and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is' vanity:

    16That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

  • Prov 15:21
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    21Folly is joy to one lacking heart, And a man of intelligence directeth `his' going.

  • Eccl 1:17-18
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    17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;

    18for, in abundance of wisdom `is' abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'

  • Eccl 7:9
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    9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

  • Prov 14:24
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    24The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools `is' folly.

  • Prov 18:2
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    2A fool delighteth not in understanding, But -- in uncovering his heart.

  • Prov 17:24
    75%

    24The face of the intelligent `is' to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool -- at the end of the earth.

  • Prov 10:8
    75%

    8The wise in heart accepteth commands, And a talkative fool kicketh.

  • Prov 8:5
    75%

    5Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,

  • Eccl 9:17
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    17The words of the wise in quiet are heard, More than the cry of a ruler over fools.

  • Eccl 2:1-3
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    1I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it `is' vanity.

    2Of laughter I said, `Foolish!' and of mirth, `What `is' this it is doing?'

    3I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where `is' this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

  • Prov 12:23
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    23A prudent man is concealing knowledge, And the heart of fools proclaimeth folly.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.

  • Eccl 6:8
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    8For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

  • Prov 18:15
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    15The heart of the intelligent getteth knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

  • Prov 12:15
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    15The way of a fool `is' right in his own eyes, And whoso is hearkening to counsel `is' wise.

  • Prov 17:22
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    22A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.

  • Prov 16:22-23
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    22A fountain of life `is' understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly.

    23The heart of the wise causeth his mouth to act wisely, And by his lips he increaseth learning,

  • Prov 17:16
    73%

    16Why `is' this -- a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?

  • Prov 11:29
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    29Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant `is' the fool to the wise of heart.

  • Prov 10:23
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    23To execute inventions `is' as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.

  • Prov 24:7
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    7Wisdom `is' high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.

  • Prov 15:24
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    24A path of life `is' on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.

  • Prov 14:16
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    16The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.

  • Eccl 4:13
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    13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.

  • Prov 13:16
    72%

    16Every prudent one dealeth with knowledge, And a fool spreadeth out folly.

  • Prov 1:7
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    7Fear of Jehovah `is' a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!