Ecclesiastes 7:6 - New Revised Standard Version

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