Ecclesiastes 7:1-4

¹What advantage has a man? for who knows what is good for a man in his life, during the number of the life of the days of his vanity? and he has spent them as a shadow; for who shall tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

²A good name is better than good oil; and the day of death than the day of birth.

³It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the banquet house: since this is the end of every man; and the living man will apply good warning to his heart.

⁴Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart will be made better.