Ecclesiastes 7:6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

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!

Proverbs 29:9

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

Ecclesiastes 2:2

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

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.

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.