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Ecclesiastes 7:6

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּ֣יkiforH3588 →
כְק֤וֹלkhe.Kollike [the] sound ofH6963 →
הַסִּירִים֙ha.si.Rim<the> thornsH5518 →
תַּ֣חַתTa.chatunderH8478 →
הַסִּ֔ירha.Sirthe potH5518 →
כֵּ֖ןkensoH3651 →
שְׂחֹ֣קse.Chok[the] laughter ofH7814 →
הַכְּסִ֑ילha.ke.Silthe foolH3684 →
וְגַם־ve.gam-and alsoH1571 →
זֶ֖הzehthisH2088 →
הָֽבֶל׃Ha.vel[is] futilityH1892 →

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Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.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?”Luke 6:25Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.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.Proverbs 29:9If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.2 Peter 2:13–17The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.Isaiah 65:13–15Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.Jude 1:12–13These 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.

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King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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