Ecclesiastes 2:2 Cross References - Great

² also in so moch that I sayd vnto the man gyuen to laughter: thou arte madd, & to myrth: what doest thou?

¹³ The herte is sorowefull euen in laughter, and the ende of myrth is heuynes.

² It is better to go into an house of mourninge, then into a bancketinge house. For there is the ende of all men, & he that is liuing, taketh it to hert: ³ grauytie is better then to laugh: for when the countenaunce is heuy, the herte is refourmed. ⁴ The hert of the wyse is in the mournyng house, but the hert of the folysh is in the house of myrth. ⁵ It is better to geue care to the chastenynge of a wyse man then to heare the songe of fooles. ⁶ For the laughinge of foles is lyke the crackynge of thornes vnder a pot. And that is but a vayne thynge.

¹² And in that daye dyd the Lorde God of hoostes call men vnto wepyng and mournyng, to baldnesse & gyrdyng aboute wyth sack cloth. ¹³ And Behold, they haue ioye and gladnesse, slayeng oxen & kylling shepe eatyng flesh & drynkyng wyne: Let vs eate and drynke: for tomorowe we shal dye

³ Ye are taken out for the euell daye, euen ye that syt in the stole of wylfulnesse. ⁴ Ye that lye vpon beddes of Yuery, and vse youre wantonnesse vpon your couches: ye that eate the best lambes of the flocke, & the fattest calues of the droaue: ⁵ ye that synge to the lute, and in playenge of instrumentes compare youre selues vnto Dauid: ⁶ ye that dryncke wyne out of goblettes, and anoynte youre selues with the best oyle, but no man is sory for Iosephs hurte.

² that he hence forwarde shulde lyue (as moch tyme as remayneth in the flesshe) not after the lustes of men, but after the wyll of God. ³ For it is sufficyent for vs, that we haue spent the tyme that is past of the lyfe, after the wyll of the Gentyls, walkynge in wantannes, lustes, in excesse of wynes, in excesse of eatynge, in excesse of drinkynge and in abomynable ydolatrie. ⁴ And it semeth to them an inconuenient thynge, that ye runne not also with them vnto the same excesse of ryote, & therfore speake they euyll of you,