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Ecclesiastes 7:4

“The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.”

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²It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

³Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.

⁴The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

⁵It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools.

⁶For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.

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