Ecclesiastes 7:4

The wise dwell on the sobering reality of mourning, while fools are absorbed in mirth. It matters because where our hearts settle reveals whether we live wisely or foolishly.

Cross-references · 18

• Matt 8:14–16When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.
• 1 Sam 25:36Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, until the morning light.
• Luke 7:12–13Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
• Hos 7:5On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.
• Isa 53:3–4He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
• 1 Sam 30:16When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
• Mark 5:38–43He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.
• Isa 21:4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
• 1 Kgs 20:16They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.
• Mark 6:21–29Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.
• Dan 5:30In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
• Jer 51:57I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
• Neh 2:2–5The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.
• John 11:31–35Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
• Dan 5:1–4Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
• Jer 51:39When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
• 2 Sam 13:28Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
• Nah 1:10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

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