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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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
That - Namely, what is seen in the house of mourning. Lay it to his heart - Consider it attentively.
In these verses Solomon lays down some great truths which seem paradoxes to the unthinking part, that is, the far greatest part, of mankind.
I. That the honour of virtue is really more valuable and…
Cambridge Bible
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting The customs of Jewish mourning must be borne in mind to appreciate the full force of the maxim. The lamentation lasting…
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