Ecclesiastes 7:6

American Standard Version (1901)

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
  • Ps 118:12 : 12 They compassed me about like bees; They are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.
  • Eccl 2:2 : 2 I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What doeth it?
  • Isa 65:13-15 : 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be put to shame; 14 behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit. 15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen; and the Lord Jehovah will slay thee; and he will call his servants by another name:
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 Woe unto you, ye that are full now! for ye shall hunger. Woe [unto you], ye that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted, and thou art in anguish.
  • 2 Pet 2:13-17 : 13 suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; [men] that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you; 14 having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing; 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the [son] of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing; 16 but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man's voice and stayed the madness of the prophet. 17 These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.
  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.
  • Prov 29:9 : 9 If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

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  • Eccl 7:3-5
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    3Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad.

    4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

    5It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

  • Eccl 2:1-2
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    1I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.

    2I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What doeth it?

  • Prov 10:23
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    23It is as sport to a fool to do wickedness; And [so is] wisdom to a man of understanding.

  • Prov 14:13
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    13Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21Folly is joy to him that is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding maketh straight his going.

  • Prov 29:9
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    9If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

  • Prov 26:9
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    9[ As] a thorn that goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the mouth of fools.

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him.

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own conceit.

  • Prov 14:24
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    24The crown of the wise is their riches; [But] the folly of fools is [only] folly.

  • Eccl 2:14-16
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    14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

    15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity.

    16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

  • Eccl 6:8-9
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    8For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? [or] what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

    9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Prov 18:2
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    2A fool hath no delight in understanding, But only that his heart may reveal itself.

  • Eccl 10:3
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    3Yea also, when the fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one [that] he is a fool.

  • Prov 14:7-9
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    7Go into the presence of a foolish man, And thou shalt not perceive [in him] the lips of knowledge.

    8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way; But the folly of fools is deceit.

    9A trespass-offering mocketh fools; But among the upright there is good will.

  • Prov 15:14
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    14The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge; But the mouth of fools feedeth on folly.

  • Prov 1:26
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    26I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

  • Eccl 7:9
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    9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

  • Prov 27:22
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    22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

  • Prov 19:10
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    10Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

  • Prov 23:9
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    9Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

  • Eccl 10:13-14
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    13The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

    14A fool also multiplieth words: [yet] man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

  • Eccl 7:7
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    7Surely extortion maketh the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroyeth the understanding.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11A fool uttereth all his anger; But a wise man keepeth it back and stilleth it.

  • Prov 26:1
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    1As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honor is not seemly for a fool.

  • Prov 12:15-16
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    15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; But he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.

    16A fool's vexation is presently known; But a prudent man concealeth shame.

  • Prov 17:16
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    16Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he hath no understanding?

  • Prov 12:23
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    23A prudent man concealeth knowledge; But the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding; But [that which is] in the inward part of fools is made known.

  • Eccl 9:17
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    17The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

  • Prov 13:16
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    16Every prudent man worketh with knowledge; But a fool flaunteth [his] folly.

  • Prov 26:11-12
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    11As a dog that returneth to his vomit, [So is] a fool that repeateth his folly.

    12Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

  • Prov 26:19
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    19So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, And saith, Am not I in sport?

  • Ps 52:6
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    6The righteous also shall see [it], and fear, And shall laugh at him, [saying] ,

  • Prov 17:24
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    24Wisdom is before the face of him that hath understanding; But the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

  • Prov 24:7
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    7Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate.

  • Prov 17:21
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    21He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.