• Ecclesiastes 7:2-4
  Better 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 take it to heart.
  Sorrow is better than laughter,
  For by a sad countenance the heart is made better.
  The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
  But the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
  
   
• Ecclesiastes 11:9-10
  Rejoice, O young man, in your youth,
  And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth;
  Walk in the ways of your heart,
  And in the sight of your eyes;
  But know that for all these
  God will bring you into judgment.
  Therefore remove sorrow from your heart,
  And put away evil from your flesh,
  For childhood and youth are vanity.
   

Related Scriptures

• Proverbs 29:18
  Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint;
  But happy is he who keeps the law.
  
   
• Proverbs 22:15
  Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
  The rod of correction will drive it far from him.
  
   
• Proverbs 29:15
  The rod and rebuke give wisdom,
  But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
  
   
• Ecclesiastes 7:5
  It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise
  Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
  
   
• Ecclesiastes 12:1
  Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth,
  Before the difficult days come,
  And the years draw near when you say,
  "I have no pleasure in them":
  
   
• Ephesians 4:17
  This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
   
• Ephesians 5:15-16
  See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.