Ecclesiastes 7:3
“Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.”
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
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.
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Related Verses
“A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.”
“A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;”
“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
“Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.”