Ecclesiastes 7:6 - Tree of Life Version

⁶ For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is vapor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ 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)

⁶ For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

Common English Bible

⁶ because the fool’s merriment is like nettles crackling under a kettle. That too is pointless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ It is better to be corrected by a wise man, than to be deceived by the false praise of the foolish.

Ecclesiastes 7:6 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 118:12

They swarmed around me like bees— they were extinguished like burning thorns— in the Name of Adonai I cut them off.

Psalm 58:9

Like a slug melting away as it slithers, like a woman’s miscarriage, may they never see the sun.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man argues with a foolish man, he rants or laughs, with no resolution.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, “It is madness!” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into a dirge. I will pull up sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son— its end a bitter day.”

Luke 16:25

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your life you received your good things, even as Lazarus received the bad things. But now he is comforted here, and you are tormented.

Luke 6:25

Woe to you who are full, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you shall mourn and weep.