Ecclesiastes 7:6 {7}
Good News Translation
When a fool laughs, it is like thorns crackling in a fire. It doesn't mean a thing.

New Revised Standard Version
For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools; this also is vanity.

Contemporary English Version
Foolish laughter is stupid. It sounds like thorns crackling in a fire.

New American Bible
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the fool’s laughter. This also is vanity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Ecclesiastes 2:2 Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?

Psalm 58:9 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

Psalm 118:12 They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among thorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them.

Isaiah 65:13-15 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty. . . .

Amos 8:10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in the day of light:

Luke 6:25 Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh: for you shall mourn and weep.

Luke 16:25 And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art tormented.

2 Peter 2:13-17 Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you: . . .

Jude 1:12,13 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots: . . .

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Proverbs 29:9 If a wise man contend with a fool, whether he be angry, or laugh, he shall find no rest.

Context
The Value of Wisdom
5It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattery of fools. 6For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.7Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart.…
Cross References
Psalm 58:9
Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

Psalm 118:12
They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among thorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them.

Ecclesiastes 2:2
Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?

Ecclesiastes 7:5
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