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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

往服喪之家，比往宴樂之家還好，因為死是人人的結局，活人要把這事放在心上。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
往 遭 丧 的 家 去 ， 强 如 往 宴 乐 的 家 去 ； 因 为 死 是 众 人 的 结 局 ， 活 人 也 必 将 这 事 放 在 心 上 。

Contextual Overview

¹ It is better to have respect than good perfume. The day of death is better than the day of birth. ² It is better to go to a funeral than to a party. We all must die, and everyone living should think about this. ³ Sorrow is better than laughter, and sadness has a good influence on you. ⁴ A wise person thinks about death, but a fool thinks only about having a good time. ⁵ It is better to be criticized by a wise person than to be praised by a fool. ⁶ The laughter of fools is like the crackling of thorns in a cooking fire. Both are useless.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

better: Genesis 48:1-22, Genesis 49:2-33, Genesis 50:15-17, Job 1:4, Job 1:5, Isaiah 5:11, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 22:12-14, Amos 6:3-6, Matthew 5:4, Matthew 14:6-12, 1 Peter 4:3, 1 Peter 4:4

that: Numbers 23:10, Deuteronomy 32:29, Romans 6:21, Romans 6:22, Philippians 3:19, Hebrews 9:27

living: Deuteronomy 32:46, Isaiah 47:7, Haggai 1:5, *marg. Malachi 2:2

Reciprocal: Esther 1:10 - the heart Ecclesiastes 2:2 - It is Ecclesiastes 9:5 - the living Ecclesiastes 10:19 - feast Jeremiah 12:11 - layeth Jeremiah 16:8 - General Luke 6:21 - ye that weep John 11:19 - to comfort James 4:9 - afflicted 1 Peter 4:7 - the end

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are the best person among the people of this time, so you and your family can go into the boat.

Genesis 7:8
The clean animals, the unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls on the ground

Genesis 7:11
When Noah was six hundred years old, the flood started. On the seventeenth day of the second month of that year the underground springs split open, and the clouds in the sky poured out rain.

Genesis 7:15
Every creature that had the breath of life came to Noah in the boat in groups of two.

Genesis 7:19
The water rose so much that even the highest mountains under the sky were covered by it.

Genesis 7:21
All living things that moved on the earth died. This included all the birds, tame animals, wild animals, and creatures that swarm on the earth, as well as all human beings.

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord . He took some of all the clean birds and animals, and he burned them on the altar as offerings to God.

Leviticus 10:10
You must keep what is holy separate from what is not holy; you must keep what is clean separate from what is unclean.

Ezekiel 44:23
They must teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is not holy. They must help my people know what is unclean and what is clean.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[It is] better to go to the house of mourning,.... For deceased relations or friends, who either lie unburied, or have been lately inferred; for the Jews kept their mourning for their dead several days afterwards, when their friends visited them in order to comfort them, as the Jews did Martha and Mary, John 11:31. So the Targum here,

"it is better to go to a mourning man to comfort him;''

for at such times and places the conversation was serious and interesting, and turned upon the subjects of mortality and a future state, and preparation for it; from whence useful and instructive lessons are learned; and so it was much better to be there

than to go to the house of feasting: the Targum is,

"than to the house of a feast of wine of scorners;''

where there is nothing but noise and clamour, luxury and intemperance, carnal mirth and gaiety, vain and frothy conversation, idle talk and impure songs, and a jest made of true religion and godliness, death and another world;

for that [is] the end of all men; not the house of feasting, but the house of mourning; or mourning itself, as Jarchi; every man must expect to lose his relation and friend, and so come to the house of mourning; and must die himself, and be the occasion of mourning: death itself seems rather intended, which is the end of all men, the way of all flesh; for it is appointed for men to die; and so the Targum,

"seeing upon them all is decreed the decree of death;''

and the living will lay [it] to his heart; by going to the house of mourning, he will be put in mind of death, and will think of it seriously, and consider his latter end, how near it is; and that this must be his case shortly, as is the deceased's he comes to mourn for. So the Targum interprets it of words concerning death, or discourses of mortality he there hears, which he takes notice of and lays to his heart, and lays up in it. Jarchi's note is,

"their thought is of the way of death.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That - Namely, what is seen in the house of mourning.

Lay it to his heart - Consider it attentively.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 7:2. It is better to go to the house of mourning — Birthdays were generally kept with great festivity, and to these the wise man most probably refers; but according to his maxim, the miseries of life were so many and so oppressive that the day of a man's death was to be preferred to the day of his birth. But, in dependently of the allusion, it is much more profitable to visit the house of mourning for the dead than the house of festivity. In the former we find occasion for serious and deeply edifying thoughts and reflections; from the latter we seldom return with one profitable thought or one solid impression.