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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
While the heart of fools is in the house of gladness.

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15 So I laud gladness, for there is nothing good for (A)a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to [a]be merry, and this will join with him in his labor throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:15 Or be glad, cf. 8:15a; 3:12, 22; 5:19; Luke 12:19