Ecclesiastes 3:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Ecclesiastes 3:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 12:15
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
Psalms 30:5
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
James 4:9
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Psalms 126:1-2
A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. …
John 16:20-22
Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. …

Topics

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures Dancing

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

The scope of these verses is to show, 1. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur promiscuously, and we are continually passing and repassing between them, as in the revolutions of every day and every year. In the wheel of nature (Jas. 3:6) sometimes one spoke is uppermost and by and by t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. mourn--namely, for the dead (Ge 23:2). dance--as David before the ark (2Sa 6:12-14; Psa 30:11); spiritually (Mt 9:15; Lu 6:21; 15:25). The Pharisees, by requiring sadness out of time, erred seriously.