Ecclesiastes 7:6

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among 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 you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.

Luke 6:25

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

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist 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 a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.