Ecclesiastes 7:6

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For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools—this too is meaningless.

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  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Like a slug that melts away as it moves, like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.
  • Ps 118:12 : 12 They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the Lord, I cut them off.
  • Eccl 2:2 : 2 I said of laughter, 'It is madness,' and of joy, 'What does it accomplish?'
  • Isa 65:13-15 : 13 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, my servants will eat, but you will go hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.' 14 Behold, my servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from the pain of your hearts and wail from a broken spirit. 15 You will leave behind your name as a curse for my chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will put you to death; but to his servants, he will give another name.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 'I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cover everyone's waists with sackcloth and shave every head bald. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.'
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.'
  • 2 Pet 2:13-17 : 13 They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to indulge in carousing during the day. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you. 14 They have eyes full of adultery, never ceasing from sin. They entice unstable souls and have hearts trained in greed. They are accursed children. 15 They have abandoned the straight way and gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. 16 But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—a beast without speech—that spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness. 17 These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness has been reserved for them forever.
  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These are hidden reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you fearlessly, shepherding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted. 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
  • Prov 29:9 : 9 When a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rages or laughs, there is no peace.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 7:3-5
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    3Sorrow is better than laughter, for when the face is sad, the heart may be improved.

    4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

    5It is better to hear the rebuke of a wise person than to listen to the song of fools.

  • Eccl 2:1-2
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    1I said to myself, 'Come now, I will test you with pleasure to see what is good.' But behold, this too was meaningless.

    2I said of laughter, 'It is madness,' and of joy, 'What does it accomplish?'

  • Prov 10:23
    76%

    23A fool finds pleasure in wicked schemes, but a person of understanding delights in wisdom.

  • Prov 14:13
    75%

    13Even in laughter, the heart may ache, and joy may end in grief.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21Foolishness brings joy to one lacking sense, but a person of understanding walks a straight path.

  • Prov 29:9
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    9When a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rages or laughs, there is no peace.

  • Prov 26:9
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    9Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will become like him yourself.

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.

  • Prov 14:24
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    24The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields only folly.

  • Eccl 2:14-16
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    14The wise have eyes in their heads, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that the same fate overtakes them both.

    15Then I said in my heart, 'What happens to the fool will also happen to me. So why have I been so very wise?' And I concluded in my heart, 'This too is meaningless.'

    16For the wise, like the fool, will not be remembered forever; in the days to come, everything will be forgotten. How does the wise person die? Just like the fool!

  • Eccl 6:8-9
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    8What advantage has the wise person over the fool? What does the poor person gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before the living?

    9Better is what the eyes see than the wandering of desire. This too is meaningless and a chasing after the wind.

  • Prov 18:2
    73%

    2A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in revealing his own thoughts.

  • Eccl 10:3
    73%

    3Even while walking along the road, the fool lacks sense and shows everyone how foolish he is.

  • Prov 14:7-9
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    7Move away from a foolish person, for you will gain no knowledge from their speech.

    8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand their path, but the folly of fools is deceit.

    9Fools mock at making amends for guilt, but goodwill is found among the upright.

  • Prov 15:14
    73%

    14The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

  • Prov 1:26
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    26I too will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,

  • Eccl 7:9
    73%

    9Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.

  • Eccl 12:8
    72%

    8'Utter futility,' says the Teacher. 'Everything is futile!'

  • Prov 27:22
    72%

    22Though you grind a fool like grain in a mortar with a pestle, their foolishness will not leave them.

  • Prov 19:10
    72%

    10Luxury is not fitting for a fool, much less for a servant to rule over princes.

  • Prov 23:9
    72%

    9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the insight of your words.

  • Eccl 10:13-14
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    72%

    13The beginning of a fool's speech is foolishness, and the end of it is evil madness.

    14A fool multiplies words; no one knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?

  • Eccl 7:7
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    7Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

  • Prov 29:11
    72%

    11A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man calmly holds it back.

  • Prov 26:1
    72%

    1Like snow in summer and rain during harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

  • Prov 12:15-16
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    15The way of a fool seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.

    16Fools show their anger at once, but the prudent quietly overlook an insult.

  • Prov 17:16
    72%

    16Why should a fool pay for wisdom when he has no intention of understanding it?

  • Prov 12:23
    72%

    23A prudent person conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.

  • Prov 14:33
    72%

    33Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning, but it becomes known even among fools.

  • Eccl 9:17
    72%

    17The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler among fools.

  • Prov 13:16
    72%

    16Every prudent person acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts their folly.

  • Prov 26:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11Like a dog returning to its vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.

    12Do you see a person who is wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.

  • Prov 26:19
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    19so is the one who deceives their neighbor and says, 'I was only joking!'

  • Ps 52:6
    71%

    6You love all words that destroy, O deceitful tongue.

  • Prov 17:24
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    24Wisdom is before the face of the discerning, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

  • Prov 24:7
    71%

    7Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

  • Prov 17:21
    71%

    21The one who fathers a fool brings grief; the father of a senseless child has no joy.