Ecclesiastes 7:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.”
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“For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So <FI>is<Fi> the laughter of a fool, even this <FI>is<Fi> vanity.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ecclesiastes 7:6 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
- Psalms 118:12They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- Proverbs 29:9If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.
- Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
- Isaiah 65:13Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
- Amos 8:10I 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 it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
- Luke 6:25Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
- Luke 16:25But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
- 2 Peter 2:13The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
- Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
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