Ecclesiastes 7:4 · KJV
“The heart of the wise {is} in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools {is} in the house of mirth.”
— Ecclesiastes 7:4
Sorrow {is} better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. {Sorrow: or, Anger}
{It is} better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7 — Context
{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.
3Sorrow {is} better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. {Sorrow: or, Anger}
4The heart of the wise {is} in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools {is} in the house of mirth.
5{It is} better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so {is} the laughter of the fool: this also {is} vanity. {crackling: Heb. sound}
Cross References
Matthew 8:14-16
And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.
Luke 7:12-13
Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart {was} merry within him, for he {was} very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
1 Samuel 30:16
And when he had brought him down, behold, {they were} spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
John 11:31-35
The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
Hosea 7:5
In the day of our king the princes have made {him} sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. {bottles...: or, heat through wine}
Daniel 5:30
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
Isaiah 21:4
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. {heart...: or, mind wandered} {turned: Heb. put}
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