They surrounded me like bees; they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
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. Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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. |
They surrounded me like bees; they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
If the wise go to law with fools, there is ranting and ridicule without relief.
I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
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.
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.
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.