Ecclesiastes 7:6

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For the laughyng of fooles is like the cracking of thornes vnder a pot: and that is but a vayne thing.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:9 : 9 As a greene thorne kindled with fyre, goeth out before your pottes be made whot: euen so let a furious rage bring him to naught.
  • Ps 118:12 : 12 They swarmed about me lyke bees, and they be extinguished as the fire made of thornes: for I trusted in the name of God that I should destroy them.
  • Eccl 2:2 : 2 Insomuch that I saide vnto the man geuen to laughter, thou art mad: and to mirth, what doest thou?
  • Isa 65:13-15 : 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Beholde, my seruauntes shall eate, but ye shall haue hunger: beholde, my seruauntes shall drinke, but ye shall suffer thirst: beholde, my seruauntes shalbe merie, but ye shalbe confounded: 14 Beholde, my seruauntes shall reioyce for very quietnesse of heart: but ye shal crye for sorowe of heart, and complaine for vexation of minde. 15 Your name shall ye leaue accursed among my chosen: for God the Lorde shall slay you, and call his seruauntes by another name.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songues into lamentation: and I will bring sackecloth vpon all loynes, and baldnesse vpon euery head, & I will make it as the mourning of an only sonne, and the end therof as a bitter day.
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 Wo vnto you that are full: for ye shall hunger. Wo vnto you that nowe laugh: for ye shall wayle and weepe.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham sayde: Sonne, remember that thou in thy lyfe tyme, receauedst thy pleasure, and lykewyse Lazarus paynes: But nowe is he comforted, and thou art tormented.
  • 2 Pet 2:13-17 : 13 And receaue the rewarde of vnryghteousnesse, they count it pleasure to lyue deliciouslye for a season: Spottes they are and blottes, delighting them selues in their deceauynges, in feastyng with you. 14 Hauyng eyes full of adulterie, & that can not ceasse from sinne, begylyng vnstable soules: Heartes they haue exercised with robberie, they are cursed chyldren, 15 Which haue forsaken the ryght waye, and are gone astray, folowyng the way of Balaam the sonne of Bosor, which loued the rewarde of vnrighteousnesse: 16 But was rebuked of his iniquitie. The dumbe beast, and vsed to the yoke, speaking with mans voyce, forbad the madnesse of the prophete. 17 These are welles without water, cloudes that are caryed with a tempest, to whom the mist of darknesse is reserued for euer.
  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These are spottes in your feastes of charitie, whe they feast with you, without al feare feedyng the selues: cloudes they are without water, caryed about of windes, corrupt trees, and without fruite, twise dead, and plucked vp by the rootes: 13 They are the ragyng waues of the sea, fomyng out their owne shame: They are wandryng starres, to whom is reserued the mist of darknes for euer.
  • Prov 29:9 : 9 If a wise man contendeth with a foole: whether he be angry or laugh, there is no rest.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 7:3-5
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    3Grauitie is better then to laugh: for when the countenaunce is heauie, the heart is refourmed.

    4The heart of the wise is in the mourning house: but the heart of the foolishe is in the house of myrth.

    5It is better to geue eare to the chastening of a wyse man, then to heare the songue of fooles:

  • Eccl 2:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1Then sayde I thus in my heart: Nowe go to, I will take myne ease, and haue good dayes: But lo, that is vanitie also.

    2Insomuch that I saide vnto the man geuen to laughter, thou art mad: and to mirth, what doest thou?

  • Prov 10:23
    76%

    23A foole doth wickedly, and maketh but a sport of it: but wisdome ruleth the man that hath vnderstandyng.

  • Prov 14:13
    75%

    13The heart is sorowfull euen in laughter, and the ende of myrth is heauinesse.

  • Prov 15:21
    75%

    21Foolishnesse is ioy to him that is destitute of knowledge: but a man of vnderstandyng walketh vprightly.

  • Prov 29:9
    74%

    9If a wise man contendeth with a foole: whether he be angry or laugh, there is no rest.

  • Prov 26:9
    74%

    9As is a thorne in the hande of a drunkarde: so is a parable in a fooles mouth.

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    73%

    4Geue not the foole an aunswere after his foolishnes, lest thou become like vnto him.

    5But make the foole an aunswere to his foolishnesse, lest he be wyse in his owne conceipt.

  • Prov 14:24
    73%

    24Riches are as a crowne vnto the wise: but the ignoraunce of fooles is very foolishnesse.

  • Eccl 2:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14For a wise man hath his eyes in his head, but the foole goeth in darknesse: I perceaued also that they both had one ende.

    15Then thought I in my mynde, yf it happen vnto the foole as it doth vnto me, what needeth me then to labour any more for wisdome? So I confessed within my heart that this also was but vanitie.

    16For the wise are euer as litle in remembraunce as the foolishe: for the dayes shall come when all shalbe forgotten: yea the wise man dyeth as well as the foole.

  • Eccl 6:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8For what hath the wise more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore that he knoweth to walke with fooles before the lyuyng?

    9The cleare sight of the eye, is better then that the soule shoulde walke after desires of the lust: Howbeit, this is also a vayne thyng, and a disquietnesse of mynde.

  • Prov 18:2
    73%

    2A foole hath no delight in vnderstanding: but onlye to vtter the fansies of his owne heart.

  • Eccl 10:3
    73%

    3A foole wyll shewe him selfe when he goeth by the way, yet thinketh he that euery man doth as foolishly as him self.

  • Prov 14:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7Get thee from a foolishe man, when thou perceauest not in hym the lippes of knowledge.

    8The wisdome of the circumspect man, is to vnderstande his way: but the foolishnesse of the vnwise, deceaueth.

    9Fooles make but a sport of sinne: but there is a fauourable loue among the ryghteous.

  • Prov 15:14
    73%

    14The heart of hym that hath vnderstandyng doth seke knowledge: but the mouth of fooles is fed with foolishnesse.

  • Prov 1:26
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    26Therfore wyll I also laugh at your destruction, and mocke you, when the thyng that ye feare commeth vpon you,

  • Eccl 7:9
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    9Be not hastyly angrie in thy minde: for wrath resteth in the bosome of fooles.

  • Eccl 12:8
    72%

    8All is but vanitie (saith the preacher) all is but playne vanitie.

  • Prov 27:22
    72%

    22Though thou shouldest bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet wyll not his foolishnes go from hym.

  • Prov 19:10
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    10Pleasure is not seemely for a foole: muche lesse for a bondman to haue rule of princes.

  • Prov 23:9
    72%

    9Tell nothing into the eares of a foole: for he wyll despise the wysdome of thy wordes.

  • Eccl 10:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13The beginning of his talking is foolishnesse: & the last worde of his mouth is starke madnesse.

    14A foole is full of wordes, and a man can not tell what shall come to passe: who wyll then warne hym of it that shall folowe after hym?

  • Eccl 7:7
    72%

    7The wyse man hateth wrong dealing, and abhorreth the heart that coueteth rewardes.

  • Prov 29:11
    72%

    11A foole vttereth all his mynde at once: but a wyse man kepeth it in tyll afterwarde.

  • Prov 26:1
    72%

    1Lyke as snowe is not meete in sommer and rayne in haruest: euen so is worship vnseemely for a foole.

  • Prov 12:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15The way of a foole is strayght in his owne eyes: but he that hearkeneth vnto counsayle is wise.

    16A foole vttereth his wrath in all the haste: but a discrete man couereth his owne shame.

  • Prov 17:16
    72%

    16Whereto hath a foole treasure in his hande to bye wisdome, seeing he hath no minde therto?

  • Prov 12:23
    72%

    23A discrete man doth hyde knowledge: but the heart of fooles blabbeth out foolishnesse.

  • Prov 14:33
    72%

    33Wisdome resteth in the heart of hym that hath vnderstandyng, and it shalbe knowen among them that are vnlearned.

  • Eccl 9:17
    72%

    17A wyse mans counsayle that is folowed in scilence, is farre aboue the crying of a captaine among fooles.

  • Prov 13:16
    72%

    16A wise man doth all thynges with discretion: but a foole wyll declare his follie.

  • Prov 26:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11Like as the dogge turneth agayne to his owne vomite: euen so a foole beginneth his foolishnes agayne afreshe.

    12If thou seest a man that is wise in his owne conceipt: there is more hope in a foole, then in hym.

  • Prov 26:19
    71%

    19So doth a dissembler with his neighbour, and saith, am not I in sport?

  • Ps 52:6
    71%

    6The righteous also shall see this: and they wyll be afraide and laugh hym to scorne.

  • Prov 17:24
    71%

    24Wisdome shineth in the face of hym that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of fooles wander throughout al landes.

  • Prov 24:7
    71%

    7Wysdome is to hye a thyng for a foole: for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.

  • Prov 17:21
    71%

    21He that begetteth a foole, begetteth his sorowe: and the father of a foole can haue no ioy.