Ecclesiastes 7:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
  • Ps 118:12 : 12 They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.
  • Eccl 2:2 : 2 Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?
  • Isa 65:13-15 : 13 For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed: 14 My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit. 15 And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name:
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.
  • 2 Pet 2:13-17 : 13 For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy; 14 Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy; 15 Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing; 16 But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet. 17 These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.
  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots, 13 Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.
  • Prov 29:9 : 9 If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.

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    3 Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

    4 The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.

    5 It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.

  • Eccl 2:1-2
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    1 I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.

    2 Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?

  • Prov 10:23
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    23 It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

  • Prov 14:13
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    13 Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21 Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

  • Prov 29:9
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    9 If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.

  • Prov 26:9
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    9 Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4 Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.

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  • Prov 14:24
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    24 Their wisdom is a crown to the wise, but their foolish behaviour is round the head of the unwise.

  • Eccl 2:14-16
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    14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

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    16 Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

  • Eccl 6:8-9
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    8 What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

    9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

  • Prov 18:2
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    2 A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

  • Eccl 10:3
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    3 And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.

  • Prov 14:7-9
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    7 Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.

    8 The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

    9 In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.

  • Prov 15:14
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    14 The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

  • Prov 1:26
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    26 So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;

  • Eccl 7:9
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    9 Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8 All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

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    22 Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

  • Prov 19:10
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    10 Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.

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    9 Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

  • Eccl 10:13-14
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    13 The first words of his mouth are foolish, and the end of his talk is evil crime.

    14 The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?

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    7 The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

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    11 A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

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    1 Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.

  • Prov 12:15-16
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    15 The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

    16 A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.

  • Prov 17:16
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    16 How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

  • Prov 12:23
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    23 A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33 Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.

  • Eccl 9:17
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    17 The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish.

  • Prov 13:16
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    16 A sharp man does everything with knowledge, but a foolish man makes clear his foolish thoughts.

  • Prov 26:11-12
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    11 Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.

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  • Prov 26:19
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    19 So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

  • Ps 52:6
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    6 The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:

  • Prov 17:24
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    24 Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

  • Prov 24:7
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    7 Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.

  • Prov 17:21
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    21 He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.