Ecclesiastes 7:6

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

Cross References (10)

  • Psalms 118:12 (7)

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

  • Psalms 58:9 (7)

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

  • Ecclesiastes 2:2 (5)

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

  • Luke 6:25 (3)

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

  • 2 Peter 2:13–17 (2)

    The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. Th

  • Isaiah 65:13–15 (2)

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you

  • Jude 1:12–13 (2)

    These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are

  • Luke 16:25 (2)

    But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received b

  • Proverbs 29:9 (2)

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

  • Amos 8:10 (2)

    I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and e