Verse 2

I saide of laughter, Thou art mad: and of ioy, What is this that thou doest?

Referenced Verses

• Prov 14:13 : 13 Euen in laughing the heart is sorowful, and the ende of that mirth is heauinesse.
• Eccl 7:2-6 : 2 (7:4) It is better to goe to the house of mourning, then to goe to the house of feasting, because this is the ende of all men: and the liuing shall lay it to his heart. 3 (7:5) Anger is better then laughter: for by a sad looke the heart is made better. 4 (7:6) The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth. 5 (7:7) Better it is to heare ye rebuke of a wise man, then that a man should heare the song of fooles. 6 (7:8) For like ye noyse of the thornes vnder the pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.
• Isa 22:12-13 : 12 And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call vnto weeping and mourning, and to baldnes and girding with sackecloth. 13 And beholde, ioy and gladnes, slaying oxen and killing sheepe, eating flesh, & drinking wine, eating and drinking: for to morowe we shall die.
• Amos 6:3-6 : 3 Ye that put farre away the euill day, and approch to the seate of iniquitie? 4 They lie vpon beddes of yuorie, & stretch themselues vpon their beddes, & eate the lambes of the flocke, and the calues out of the stall. 5 They sing to the sounde of the viole: they inuent to themselues instruments of musike like Dauid. 6 They drinke wine in bowles, and anoynt themselues with the chiefe ointments, but no man is sory for the affliction of Ioseph.
• 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 2 That he hence forward should liue (as much time as remaineth in the flesh) not after the lusts of men, but after the will of God. 3 For it is sufficient for vs that we haue spet the time past of ye life, after the lust of the Gentiles, walking in wantonnes, lustes, drunkenes, in gluttonie, drinkings, & in abominable idolatries. 4 Wherein it seemeth to them strange, that yee runne not with them vnto the same excesse of riot: therefore speake they euill of you,