Ecclesiastes 7:6 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

For as the voice of thorns under the pot, so the laughter of the foolish one. Also this is vanity.

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King 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.

Ecclesiastes 7:6 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me as bees; they were quenched as the fire of thorns: in the name of Jehovah for I will destroy them.

Psalm 58:9

Before your pots shall perceive the thorn, as living, as in wrath, he will sweep him away.

Proverbs 29:9

A wise man contending with a foolish man and raging and laughing, and no rest.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

To laughter I said, It is mad: and to gladness, What did this?

Amos 8:10

And turned your festivals into mourning, and all your songs to lamentation; and I brought up sackcloth upon all loins, and upon every head, baldness; and I set it as the mourning of an only one, and its last part as a day of bitterness.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: and now here is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

Luke 6:25

Woe to you having been filled for ye shall hunger. Woe to you laughing now! for ye shall grieve and weep.