Ecclesiastes 7:3
Grief is better than laughter, 2 for after sadness of face comes gladness of heart. 1
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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 119:67Before I was afflicted I went astray, 1 but now I observe your word. 1
Psalms 126:5Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. 1
Jeremiah 31:8See, I am about to bring them from the northern lands. I will gather them from the farthest parts of the earth. 1 The blind and lame will be among them; 1 pregnant women and those who are about to give birth will be with them. 1 A great assembly will return here. 1
Jeremiah 50:4In those days and at that time—this is Yahweh's declaration—the people of Israel and the people of Judah 1 will come together to go with weeping and seek Yahweh their God. 1
Daniel 10:2In those days I, Daniel, was in mourning for three weeks.
Zechariah 12:10But I will pour out a spirit of compassion and pleading on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so they will look on me, the one they have pierced. They will mourn for me, as one mourns for an only son; they will bitterly lament for him like those who lament the death of a firstborn son.
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 →