Job 20:5
20:5 that the elation of the wicked is brief,
the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
Proverbs 14:13
14:13 Even in laughter the heart may ache,
and the end of joy may be grief.
Ecclesiastes 7:4-6
7:4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
but the heart of fools is in the house of merrymaking.
Frivolous Living Versus Wisdom
7:5 It is better for a person to receive a rebuke from those who are wise
than to listen to the song of fools.
7:6 For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns under a cooking pot,
so is the laughter of the fool.
This kind of folly also is useless.
Matthew 24:38-39
24:38 For in those days before the flood, people
were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.
24:39 And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away.
It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.
Luke 17:26-29
17:26 Just
as it was
in the days of Noah,
so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.
17:27 People
were eating,
they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then
the flood came and destroyed them all.
17:28 Likewise, just as it was
in the days of Lot, people
were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
17:29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.