Ecclesiastes 7:4 KJV — MannaFest

Ecclesiastes 7:4

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

KJV

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ASV

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

WEB

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

YLT

The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.

DBT

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

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Ecclesiastes — Qohelet the Preacher — ''vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' The book's relentless examination of life under the sun, resolving not in despair but in ''fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.''

Author: Traditional: Solomon (''son of David, king in Jerusalem''). Critical: a later Qohelet figure writing in Solomonic persona. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer carries the position.
Date: Solomonic reading: c. 940 BC. Critical reading: Persian or early Hellenistic period (5th–3rd century BC).

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Matthew 8:14–16
And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.
Luke 7:12–13
Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.
Hosea 7:5
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

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) he makes it the character, (1.) Of a wise man that his heart is in the house of mourning; he is much conversant with mournful subjects, and this is both an evidence and a furtherance of his wisdom.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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