13Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
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I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. …
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13)This shows the vanity of carnal mirth, and proves what Solomon said of laughter, that it is mad ; for, 1. There is sadness under it. Sometimes when sinners are under convictions, or some great trouble, they dissemble their grief by a forced mirth, and put a good face on it, because they will not seem to yield: they cry not when he binds them. Nay, when men really are merry, yet at the same time th…
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