Ecclesiastes 7:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי כְקוֹל הַסִּירִים תַּחַת הַסִּיר כֵּן שְׂחֹק הַכְּסִיל וְגַם־זֶה הָבֶל

Transliteration

Kî like-qôl the-sîrîm taḥaṯ the-sîr thus śəḥōq the-kəsîl wə-gam-this hāḇel

Grammar Details

• *Kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *qôl*: noun, masculine singular construct - sound of
• *sîrîm*: noun, masculine plural with definite article - the thorns
• *taḥaṯ*: preposition - under
• *sîr*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the pot
• *śəḥōq*: noun, masculine singular construct - laughter of
• *kəsîl*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the fool
• *wə-gam*: conjunction + particle - and also
• *hāḇel*: noun, masculine singular - vapor/vanity

Word Meanings

• *sîrîm*: thorns/thorn bushes
• *sîr*: pot/cooking vessel
• *śəḥōq*: laughter/mirth
• *kəsîl*: fool/one lacking wisdom
• *hāḇel*: vapor/breath/vanity/meaninglessness

Referenced Verses

• Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel{H8799)} the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind{H8799)}, 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.