Ecclesiastes 7:6

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
  • Ps 118:12 : 12 They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.
  • Eccl 2:2 : 2 I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"
  • Isa 65:13-15 : 13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed; 14 behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit. 15 You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 Woe to you, you who are full 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, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
  • 2 Pet 2:13-17 : 13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you; 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing; 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing; 16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
  • Prov 29:9 : 9 If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and 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 by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

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

    5It 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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    1I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this also was vanity.

    2I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

  • Prov 10:23
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    23It is a fool's pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding's pleasure.

  • Prov 14:13
    75%

    13Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

  • Prov 29:9
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    9If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

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

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4Don't answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

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

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

  • Eccl 2:14-16
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    14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

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

    16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

  • Eccl 6:8-9
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    73%

    8For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

    9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Prov 18:2
    73%

    2A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

  • Eccl 10:3
    73%

    3Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

  • Prov 14:7-9
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    7Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.

    8The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

    9Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

  • Prov 15:14
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    14The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

  • Prov 1:26
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    26I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

  • Eccl 7:9
    73%

    9Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

  • Eccl 12:8
    72%

    8"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher. "All is vanity!"

  • Prov 27:22
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    22Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

  • Prov 19:10
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    10Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

  • Prov 23:9
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    9Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

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

    14A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

  • Eccl 7:7
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    7Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

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

  • Prov 12:15-16
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    72%

    15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

    16A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

  • Prov 17:16
    72%

    16Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

  • Prov 12:23
    72%

    23A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

  • Prov 14:33
    72%

    33Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

  • Eccl 9:17
    72%

    17The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

  • Prov 13:16
    72%

    16Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

  • Prov 26:11-12
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    71%

    11As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

    12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

  • Prov 26:19
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    19is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"

  • Ps 52:6
    71%

    6The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

  • Prov 17:24
    71%

    24Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

  • Prov 24:7
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    7Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.

  • Prov 17:21
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    21He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.