Ecclesiastes 7:6
For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So [is] the laughter of a fool, even this [is] vanity.
Young's Literal Translation
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
5Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than [for] a man to hear a song of fools,
7Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart.
Cross References
Psalms 118:12They compassed me about as bees, They have been extinguished as a fire of thorns, In the name of Jehovah I surely cut them off.
Ecclesiastes 2:2Of laughter I said, 'Foolish!' and of mirth, 'What [is] this it is doing?'
Amos 8:10And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head — baldness, And made it as a mourning [of] an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.
Luke 16:25'And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive — thou — thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;
Jude 1:12These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;
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 →