Ecclesiastes 7:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools; this also is vanity.

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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

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees; they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

Psalm 58:9

Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus in like manner evil things, but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.

Luke 6:25

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

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

Proverbs 29:9

If the wise go to law with fools, there is ranting and ridicule without relief.