Ecclesiastes 7:6
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool. This also is vanity.
Noyes 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 for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.
7Surely the gain of oppression maketh a wise man foolish, and a gift corrupteth the understanding.
Cross References
Psalms 118:12They beset me around like bees; They were quenched like the fire of thorns, For in the name of the LORD I destroyed them.
Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, “It is mad;” and of mirth, “What availeth it?”
Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, And baldness upon all heads. I will fill the land with mourning, as for an only son, And its end shall be as a day of bitter woe.
Luke 16:25But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy lifetime, and Lazarus in like manner his evil things; but now he is comforted here, and thou art tormented.
Jude 1:12These are the rocks in your feasts of love, feasting together without fear, feeding only themselves; clouds without water, carried away by winds; trees in late autumn, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
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 →