Ecclesiastes 7:6

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.
  • Ps 118:12 : 12 They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
  • 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 GOD, 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 ashamed: 14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. 15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and 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 up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 ‹Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you 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 likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.›
  • 2 Pet 2:13-17 : 13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
  • Prov 29:9 : 9 ¶ [If] a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, [there is] no rest.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    3 Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

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

    5 [It 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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    1 ¶ I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.

    2 I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

  • Prov 10:23
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    23 ¶ [It is] as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

  • Prov 14:13
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    13 ¶ Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21 ¶ Folly [is] joy to [him that is] destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

  • Prov 29:9
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    9 ¶ [If] a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, [there is] no rest.

  • Prov 26:9
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    9 [As] a thorn 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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    4 ¶ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

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

  • Prov 14:24
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    24 ¶ The crown of the wise [is] their riches: [but] the foolishness of fools [is] folly.

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

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

    16 For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.

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

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  • Prov 18:2
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    2 ¶ A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

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

  • Prov 14:7-9
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    7 ¶ Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not [in him] the lips of knowledge.

    8 ¶ The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way: but the folly of fools [is] deceit.

    9 ¶ Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous [there is] favour.

  • Prov 15:14
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    14 ¶ The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

  • Prov 1:26
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    26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

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

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8 ¶ Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.

  • Prov 27:22
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    22 ¶ Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.

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    10 ¶ Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

  • Prov 23:9
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    9 ¶ Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

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

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    7 ¶ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11 ¶ A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise [man] keepeth it in till afterwards.

  • Prov 26:1
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  • Prov 12:15-16
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    15 ¶ The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is] wise.

    16 ¶ A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent [man] covereth shame.

  • Prov 17:16
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    16 ¶ Wherefore [is there] a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he hath] no heart [to it]?

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    23 ¶ A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33 ¶ Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but [that which is] in the midst of fools is made known.

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    17 The words of wise [men are] heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

  • Prov 13:16
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  • Prov 26:11-12
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    6 ¶ The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

  • Prov 17:24
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  • Prov 24:7
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    21 ¶ He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.