Ecclesiastes 7:6
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
In Context
5Anger is better then laughter: for by a sad looke the heart is made better.
7Better it is to heare ye rebuke of a wise man, then that a man should heare the song of fooles.
Cross References
Psalms 118:12They came about mee like bees, but they were quenched as a fire of thornes: for in the Name of the Lord I shall destroy them.
Ecclesiastes 2:2I saide of laughter, Thou art mad: and of ioy, What is this that thou doest?
Amos 8:10And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring sackcloth vpon all loynes, and baldnes vpon euery head: and I will make it as the mourning of an onely sonne, and the ende thereof as a bitter day.
Luke 16:25But Abraham saide, Sonne, remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy pleasures, and likewise Lazarus paines: now therefore is he comforted, and thou art tormented.
Jude 1:12These are rockes in your feasts of charitie when they feast with you, without al feare, feeding themselues: cloudes they are without water, caried about of windes, corrupt trees and without fruit, twise dead, and plucked vp by ye rootes.
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 →