Ecclesiastes 7:6 “For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of…”

Ecclesiastes 7:6

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So [is] the laughter of a fool, even this [is] vanity.

Bible in Basic English

Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

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Cross references

“as”

Psalm 58:9 Psalm 118:12 Ecclesiastes 2:2 Luke 6:25 Isaiah 65:13–15 Amos 8:10

Psalm 58:9 · BSB

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.

Psalm 118:12 · BSB

They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

Ecclesiastes 2:2 · BSB

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

Luke 6:25 · BSB

Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Isaiah 65:13–15 · BSB

Therefore 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 8:10 · BSB

I 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…

“the laughter”

Proverbs 29:9

Proverbs 29:9 · BSB

If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools.

7Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

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