Ecclesiastes 7:6

New American Bible - revised edition

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the fool’s laughter. This also is vanity.

Cross References

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees; they burned up like fire among thorns; in the Lord’s name I cut them off.

Psalm 58:9

Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away, like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise person disputes with a fool, there is railing and ridicule but no resolution.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

Of laughter I said: “Mad!” and of mirth: “What good does this do?”

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into dirges. I will cover the loins of all with sackcloth and make every head bald. I will make it like the time of mourning for an only child, and its outcome like a day of bitter weeping.

Luke 16:25

Abraham replied, ‘My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented.

Luke 6:25

But woe to you who are filled now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will grieve and weep.