Ecclesiastes 7:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: 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 compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of the LORD I will cut them off.

Psalm 58:9

Before your pots can feel the thorns, He shall take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted, and thou art in anguish.

Luke 6:25

Woe unto you, ye that are full now! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you, ye that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

Amos 8:10

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.