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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Solomon is not speaking here of sober enjoyment of the things of the world, but of intemperate pleasure, whose two attendants, laughter and mirth, are introduced by a beautiful prosopopoeia, as two persons, whom he treats with the utmost contempt. |
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Ecc 7:2-6; Pro 14:13; Isa 22:12,13; Amo 6:3-6; 1Pe 4:2-4 |
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Ecc 7:2 |
[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. |
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Ecc 7:3 |
Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. |
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Ecc 7:4 |
The heart of the wise [is] in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools [is] in the house of mirth. |
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Ecc 7:5 |
[It is] better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. |
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Ecc 7:6 |
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity. |
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Pro 14:13 |
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness. |
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Isa 22:12 |
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: |
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Isa 22:13 |
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. |
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Amo 6:3 |
Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; |
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Amo 6:4 |
That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; |
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Amo 6:5 |
That chant to the sound of the viol, [and] invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; |
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Amo 6:6 |
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. |
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1Pe 4:2 |
That he no longer should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. |
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1Pe 4:3 |
For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: |
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1Pe 4:4 |
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you]: |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Ecclesiastes 2:2," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Ecc/2/2.html>.
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