Ecclesiastes 7:1
King James VersionSource notes
“A good name better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.”
Context
1A good name better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
2better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay to his heart.
3Sorrow better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
4The heart of the wise in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools in the house of mirth.