"For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so {is} the laughter of the fool: this also {is} vanity. {crackling: Heb. so…" — Ecclesiastes 7:6

Ecclesiastes 7:6 · KJV

“For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so {is} the laughter of the fool: this also {is} vanity. {crackling: Heb. sound}”

— Ecclesiastes 7:6

Verse 5

{It is} better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Verse 7

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

Ecclesiastes 7 — Context

The heart of the wise {is} in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools {is} in the house of mirth.

{It is} better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

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

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

Better {is} the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: {and} the patient in spirit {is} better than the proud in spirit.

Cross References

Psalms 118:12

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. {destroy: Heb. cut down}

Psalms 58:9

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in {his} wrath. {both...: Heb. as living as wrath}

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, {It is} mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

Luke 6:25

Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

Proverbs 29:9

{If} a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, {there is} no rest.

2 Peter 2:13-17

And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, {as} they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots {they are} and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

Jude 1:12-13

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds {they are} without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Amos 8:10

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only {son}, and the end thereof as a bitter day.