Ecclesiastes 7:6
For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
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.
Cross References
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.
Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
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 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.
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.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:2-7
The Value of a Good Name. 1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. 5 It is better to hear the rebuke of… Read the whole commentary →