Ecclesiastes 7:14

Be joyful in prosperity and reflective in adversity, knowing God sends both so we cannot foresee the future. It matters because God ordains both good and hard times to keep us humble and dependent on Him.

Cross-references · 26

• Eccl 3:4a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
• Eccl 3:22Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?
• Deut 8:3He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
• Eccl 12:13This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
• Jas 5:13Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
• Deut 28:47Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
• Isa 26:11Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
• 2 Chr 33:12–13When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
• Ps 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
• Matt 9:13But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
• Ps 40:3He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
• Ps 94:12–13Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;
• 1 Kgs 17:17–18After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.
• Jer 23:20Yahweh’s anger shall not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
• Job 10:1–2“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• John 16:22–23Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
• Ps 30:11–12You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
• Mic 6:9Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
• Luke 15:17–18But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
• Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
• Hos 2:6–7Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.
• 1 Kgs 8:47yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
• Isa 22:12–14In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
• Isa 42:25Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know; and it burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”
• Eccl 12:8“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”
• Hag 1:5–7Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

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