Ecclesiastes 7:6

Coverdale Bible (1535)

For the laughinge of fooles is like ye crackynge of thornes vnder a pott. And yt is but a vayne thinge.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Or euer youre thornes be sharpe, the wrath shal take them awaye quycke, like a stormy wynde.
  • Ps 118:12 : 12 They came aboute me like bees, & were as hote as the fyre in the thornes, but in the name of the LORDE I wil destroye them.
  • Eccl 2:2 : 2 in so moch that I sayde vnto laughter: thou art madd, and to myrth: what doest thou?
  • Isa 65:13-15 : 13 Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, my seruauntes shal eate, but ye shall haue honger. Beholde, my seruauntes shall drynke, but ye shal suffre thurste. Beholde, my seruauntes shal be mery, but ye shal be cofounded. 14 Beholde, my seruauntes shal reioyse for very quietnesse of herte. But ye shal crie for sorow of hert, and coplayne for vexacion of mynde. 15 Youre name shal not be sworne by amonge my chosen, for God the LORDE shal slaye you, and call his seruauntes by another name.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 Youre hye feastes will I turne to sorow, and youre songes to mournynge: I wil brynge sack cloth vpo all backes, & baldnes vpo euery heade: yee soch a mournynge wil I sende them, as is made vpon an only begotten sonne, and they shall haue a miserable ende.
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 Wo vnto you that are full, for ye shal honger. Wo vnto you that laugh here, for ye shal wepe and wayle.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraha saide: Remebre sonne, yt thou hast receaued good in yi life, & contrary wyse Lazarus receaued euell. But now is he comforted, and thou art tormented.
  • 2 Pet 2:13-17 : 13 and so receaue ye rewarde of vnrighteousnes.They counte it pleasure to lyue deliciously for a season: Spottes are they and fylthynes: lyuynge at pleasure and in disceaueable wayes: feastynge wt that which is youres, 14 hauynge eyes full of aduoutrye, and ca not ceasse from synne, entysinge vnstable soules: hauynge an hert exercysed wt couetousnes: they are cursed children, 15 and haue forsaken the righte waye, and are gone astraye: folowinge the waye of Balaam the sonne of Bosor, which loued the rewarde of vnrighteousnes: 16 but was rebuked of his iniquyte. The tame and domme beast spake with mas voyce, & forbad the foolishnes of ye prophet. 17 These are welles without water, & cloudes caried aboute of a tepest: to who ye myst of darknesse is reserued foreuer.
  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These are spottes which of youre kindnes feast togedder, without feare, fedynge the selues. Cloudes they are withouten water, caried about of wyndes, and trees without frute at gadringe tyme, twyse deed and plucked vp by the rotes. 13 They are the ragynge waues of the see, fominge out their awne shame. They are wandrynge starres, to who is reserued the myst of darcknes for euer.
  • Prov 29:9 : 9 Yf a wyse man go to lawe with a foole (whether he deale with him frendly or roughly) he getteth no rest.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 7:3-5
    3 verses
    81%

    3 It is better to be sory then to laugh, for whe the countenaunce is heuy, the herte is ioyfull.

    4 The herte of ye wyse is in the mournynge house, but the hert of the foolish is in the house of myrth.

    5 It is better to geue eare to the chastenynge of a wyse man, then to heare the songe of fooles.

  • Eccl 2:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 The sayde I thus in my hert: Now go to, I wil take myne ease & haue good dayes. But lo, that was vanite also:

    2 in so moch that I sayde vnto laughter: thou art madd, and to myrth: what doest thou?

  • Prov 10:23
    76%

    23 A foole doth wickedly & maketh but a sporte of it: neuertheles it is wysdome for a man to bewarre of soch.

  • Prov 14:13
    75%

    13 The herte is soroufull euen in laughter, and the ende of myrth is heuynesse.

  • Prov 15:21
    75%

    21 A foole reioyseth in foolish thinges, but a wyse man loketh well to his owne goinges.

  • Prov 29:9
    74%

    9 Yf a wyse man go to lawe with a foole (whether he deale with him frendly or roughly) he getteth no rest.

  • Prov 26:9
    74%

    9 A parable in a fooles mouth, is like a thorne yt pricketh a droncken man in ye hande.

  • Prov 26:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 Geue not the foole an answere after his foolishnesse, lest thou become like vnto him:

    5 but make ye foole an answere to his foolishnesse, lest he be wyse in his owne coceate.

  • Prov 14:24
    73%

    24 Riches are an ornament vnto the wyse, but the ignoraunce of fooles is very foolishnesse.

  • Eccl 2:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14 For a wyse man beareth his eyes aboute in his heade, but the foole goeth in the darknesse. I perceaued also that they both had one ende.

    15 Then thought I in my mynde: Yf it happen vnto the foole as it doth vnto me, what nedeth me then to laboure eny more for wy?dome? So I confessed within my harte, that this also was but vanite.

    16 For the wyse are euer as litle in remembraunce as the foolish, and all the dayes for to come shalbe forgotten, yee the wyse man dyeth as well as ye foole.

  • Eccl 6:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 For what hath the wyse more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore, that he knoweth to walke before the lyuynge?

    9 The sight of the eyes is better, then that the soule shulde so departe awaye. Howbeit this is also a vayne thinge and a disquietnesse of mynde.

  • Prov 18:2
    73%

    2 A foole hath no delyte in vnderstodinge, but only in those thinges wherin his herte reioyseth.

  • Eccl 10:3
    73%

    3 A dotinge foole thinketh, yt euery ma doth as foolishly as himself.

  • Prov 14:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7 Se yt thou medle not with a foole, & do as though thou haddest no knowlege.

    8 The wy?dome of him that hath vnderstondinge is, to take hede vnto his waye, but the foolishnesse of the vnwyse disceaueth.

    9 Fooles make but a sporte of synne, but there is fauourable loue amoge the rightuous.

  • Prov 15:14
    73%

    14 A wyse herte wil seke after knowlege, but ye mouth of fooles medleth with foolishnesse.

  • Prov 1:26
    73%

    26 Therfore shal I also laugh in yor destruccion, and mocke you, when ye thinge that ye feare cometh vpon you:

  • Eccl 7:9
    73%

    9 Be not haistely angrie in yi mynde, for wrath resteth in the bosome of a foole.

  • Eccl 12:8
    72%

    8 All is but vanite (sayeth the preacher) all is but playne vanite.

  • Prov 27:22
    72%

    22 Though thou shuldest bray a foole wt a pestell in a morter like otemeell, yet wil not his foolishnesse go from him.

  • Prov 19:10
    72%

    10 Delicate ease becometh not a foole, moch more vnsemely is it, a bonde man to haue ye rule of prynces.

  • Prov 23:9
    72%

    9 Tel nothinge in to ye eares of a foole, for he wyl despyse the wy?dome of thy wordes.

  • Eccl 10:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 The begynnynge of his talkynge is foolishnes, and the last worde of his mouth is greate madnesse.

    14 A foole is so full of wordes, that a man can not tell what ende he wyll make: who wyl then warne him to make a conclucion?

  • Eccl 7:7
    72%

    7 Who so doeth wronge, maketh a wyse man to go out of his witt, and destroyeth a gentle hert.

  • Prov 29:11
    72%

    11 A foole poureth out his sprete alltogether, but a wyse man kepeth it in till afterwarde.

  • Prov 26:1
    72%

    1 Like as snowe is not mete in sommer, ner rayne in haruest: euen so is worshipe vnsemely for a foole.

  • Prov 12:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 Loke what a foole taketh in honde, he thinketh it well done: but he that is wyse, wyl be couceled.

    16 A foole vttereth his wrath in all the haist, but a discrete man forgeueth wronge.

  • Prov 17:16
    72%

    16 What helpeth it to geue a foole money in his hode, where as he hath no mynde to bye wy?dome?

  • Prov 12:23
    72%

    23 He that hath vnderstodinge, can hyde his wysdome: but an vndiscrete herte telleth out his foolishnesse.

  • Prov 14:33
    72%

    33 Wy?dome resteth in the herte of him that hath vnderstondinge, and he wyll teach them that are vnlerned.

  • Eccl 9:17
    72%

    17 A wise mans councell that is folowed in sylence, is farre aboue the crienge of a captaine amoge fooles.

  • Prov 13:16
    72%

    16 A wyse man doth all thinges with discrecion, but a foole wil declare his foly.

  • Prov 26:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11 Like as the dogg turneth agayne to his vomite, euen so a foole begynneth his foolishnesse agayne afresh.

    12 Yf thou seyest a man yt is wyse in his owne conceate, there is more hope in a foole then in hi.

  • Prov 26:19
    71%

    19 And then sayeth he: I dyd it but in sporte.

  • Ps 52:6
    71%

    6 Therfore shal God cleane destroyethe, smyte the in peces, plucke the out of thy dwellinge, and rote the out of the londe of the lyuinge.

  • Prov 17:24
    71%

    24 Wy?dome shyneth in ye face of him yt hath vnderstondinge, but ye eyes of fooles wandre thorow out all lodes.

  • Prov 24:7
    71%

    7 Wy?dome is an hie thinge, yee eue to ye foole, for he darre not ope his mouth in ye gate.

  • Prov 17:21
    71%

    21 An vnwyse body bryngeth himselfe in to sorowe, and ye father of a foole can haue no ioye.