Ecclesiastes 7:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁶ for like the crackling of burning thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility)!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

Common English Bible

⁶ because the fool’s merriment is like nettles crackling under a kettle. That too is pointless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ It is better to be corrected by a wise man, than to be deceived by the false praise of the foolish.

Ecclesiastes 7:6 Cross References

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise person goes to court with a fool, there will be ranting and raving but no resolution.  ,

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said about laughter,  ‘It is madness,’ and about pleasure, ‘What does this accomplish? ’

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone  to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.

Luke 16:25

‘ “Son,”   Abraham said, “remember that during your life you received your good things,   just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here,   while you are in agony.

Luke 6:25

Woe to you who are now full, for you will be hungry. Woe to you   who are now laughing, for you will mourn and weep.