Ecclesiastes 7:1-2

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

A Disillusioned View of Life

7 A good name is better than precious ointment,
    and the day of death, than the day of birth.
²It is better to go to the house of mourning
    than to go to the house of feasting;
for this is the end of everyone,
    and the living will lay it to heart.

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