New Revised Standard Version
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for this is the end of everyone, and the living will lay it to heart.

Contemporary English Version
It's better to go to a funeral than to attend a feast; funerals remind us that we all must die.

New American Bible
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, For that is the end of every mortal, and the living should take it to heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.

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Genesis 48:1 After these things, it was told Joseph that his father was sick; and he set out to go to him, taking his two sons Manasses and Ephraim.

Genesis 49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel, your father:

Genesis 50:15-17 Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him. . . .

Job 1:4,5 And his sons went, and made a feast by houses, every one in his day. And sending, they called their three sisters, to eat and drink with them. . . .

Isaiah 5:11,12 Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink in the evening, to be inflamed with wine. . . .

Isaiah 22:12-14 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: . . .

Amos 6:3-6 You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity; . . .

Matthew 5:4 Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.

Matthew 14:6 But on Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before them: and pleased Herod.

1 Peter 4:3,4 For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols. . . .

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Numbers 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end be like to them.

Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.

Romans 6:21,22 What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death. . . .

Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

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Deuteronomy 32:46 And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:

Isaiah 47:7 And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever: thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, neither hast thou remembered thy latter end.

Haggai 1:5 And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways.

Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.