Ecclesiastes 7:1-6

¹A good name is better than costly perfume, and the day of death is better than the day of birth.

²It is better to go to a house of mourning than to a house of feasting, for mourning comes to all people at the end of life, so living people must take this to heart.

³Grief is better than laughter, for after sadness of face comes gladness of heart.

⁴The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of feasting.

⁵It is better to listen to the rebuke of the wise than to listen to the song of fools.

⁶For like the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so also is the laughter of fools. This, too, is vapor.