If a wise person goes to court with a fool, there will be ranting and raving but no resolution. ,
Ecclesiastes 7:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised for like the crackling of burning thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. Common English Bible because the fool’s merriment is like nettles crackling under a kettle. That too is pointless. Catholic Public Domain Version It is better to be corrected by a wise man, than to be deceived by the false praise of the foolish. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattery of fools. |
If a wise person goes to court with a fool, there will be ranting and raving but no resolution. ,
I said about laughter, ‘It is madness,’ and about pleasure, ‘What does this accomplish? ’
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.
‘ “Son,” Abraham said, “remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
Woe to you who are now full, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are now laughing, for you will mourn and weep.