Ecclesiastes 7:6

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For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns under a cooking pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This kind of folly also is useless.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.
  • Ps 118:12 : 12 They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the LORD I pushed them away.
  • Eccl 2:2 : 2 I said of partying,“It is folly,” and of self-indulgent pleasure,“It accomplishes nothing!”
  • Isa 65:13-15 : 13 So this is what the Sovereign LORD says:“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated! 14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. 15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. The Sovereign LORD will kill you, but he will give his servants another name.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 “Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry.“Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham said,‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.
  • 2 Pet 2:13-17 : 13 suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you. 14 Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children! 15 By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, 16 yet was rebuked for his own transgression(a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness). 17 These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.
  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit– twice dead, uprooted; 13 wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.
  • Prov 29:9 : 9 When a wise person goes to court with a foolish person, there is no peace whether he is angry or laughs.

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  • Eccl 7:3-5
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    3Sorrow is better than laughter, because sober reflection is good for the heart.

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

    5Frivolous Living Versus Wisdom It is better for a person to receive a rebuke from those who are wise than to listen to the song of fools.

  • Eccl 2:1-2
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    1Futility of Self-Indulgent Pleasure I thought to myself,“Come now, I will try self-indulgent pleasure to see if it is worthwhile.” But I found that it also is futile.

    2I said of partying,“It is folly,” and of self-indulgent pleasure,“It accomplishes nothing!”

  • Prov 10:23
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    23Carrying out a wicked scheme is enjoyable to a fool, and so is wisdom for the one who has discernment.

  • Prov 14:13
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    13Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21Folly is a joy to one who lacks sense, but one who has understanding follows an upright course.

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    9When a wise person goes to court with a foolish person, there is no peace whether he is angry or laughs.

  • Prov 26:9
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    9Like a thorn has gone up into the hand of a drunkard, so a proverb has gone up into the mouth of a fool.

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you yourself also be like him.

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

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

  • Eccl 2:14-16
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    14The wise man can see where he is going, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that the same fate happens to them both.

    15So I thought to myself,“The fate of the fool will happen even to me! Then what did I gain by becoming so excessively wise?” So I lamented to myself,“The benefits of wisdom are ultimately meaningless!”

    16For the wise man, like the fool, will not be remembered for very long, because in the days to come, both will already have been forgotten. Alas, the wise man dies– just like the fool!

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    8So what advantage does a wise man have over a fool? And what advantage does a pauper gain by knowing how to survive?

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  • Prov 18:2
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    2A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in disclosing what is on his mind.

  • Eccl 10:3
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    3Even when a fool walks along the road he lacks sense, and shows everyone what a fool he is.

  • Prov 14:7-9
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    7Walk abreast with a foolish person, and you do not understand wise counsel.

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

  • Prov 1:26
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    26so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,

  • Eccl 7:9
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    9Do not let yourself be quickly provoked, for anger resides in the lap of fools.

  • Eccl 12:8
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  • Prov 27:22
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    22If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.

  • Prov 19:10
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    10Luxury is not appropriate for a fool; how much less for a servant to rule over princes!

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

  • Eccl 10:13-14
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    13At the beginning his words are foolish and at the end his talk is wicked madness,

    14yet a fool keeps on babbling. No one knows what will happen; who can tell him what will happen in the future?

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    11A fool lets fly with all his temper, but a wise person keeps it back.

  • Prov 26:1
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    1Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

  • Prov 12:15-16
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    15The way of a fool is right in his own opinion, but the one who listens to advice is wise.

    16A fool’s annoyance is known at once, but the prudent conceals dishonor.

  • Prov 17:16
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    16What’s the point of a fool having money in hand to buy wisdom, when his head is empty?

  • Prov 12:23
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    23The shrewd person conceals knowledge, but foolish people proclaim folly.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning; it is not known in the inner parts of fools.

  • Eccl 9:17
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    17Wisdom versus Fools, Sin, and Folly The words of the wise are heard in quiet, more than the shouting of a ruler is heard among fools.

  • Prov 13:16
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    16Every shrewd person acts with knowledge, but a fool displays his folly.

  • Prov 26:11-12
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    11Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

    12You have seen a man wise in his own opinion– there is more hope for a fool than for him.

  • Prov 26:19
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    19so is a person who has deceived his neighbor, and said,“Was I not only joking?”

  • Ps 52:6
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    6When the godly see this, they will be filled with awe, and will mock the evildoer, saying:

  • Prov 17:24
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    24Wisdom is directly in front of the discerning person, but the eyes of a fool run to the ends of the earth.

  • Prov 24:7
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    7Wisdom is unattainable for a fool; in court he does not open his mouth.

  • Prov 17:21
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    21Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.