Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow is better than laughter, for tragedy helps us by making us think.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 119:67Previously I was suffering, wandering away from you, but now I do what you say.
Psalms 126:5Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy!
Jeremiah 31:8Watch, because I will bring them back from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth. Everyone will return, even the blind and the lame, pregnant women, even mothers giving birth—a great gathering coming home,
Jeremiah 50:4That's the time when the people of Israel and Judah will join together, weeping as they go to worship the Lord their God, declares the Lord.
Daniel 10:2When this happened, I, Daniel, had been in mourning for three full weeks.
Zechariah 12:10I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They will look at me whom they pierced, and they will wail in grief over him, mourning as for an only child, weeping bitterly as for a firstborn.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:2-7
The Value of a Good Name. 1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 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. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. 4 The 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… Read the whole commentary →