Ecclesiastes 7:6

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

For as the noise of thorns under the pot, || So [is] the laughter of a fool, even this [is] vanity.

YLT

For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So [is] the laughter of a fool, even this [is] vanity.

DBY

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

DRC7:7

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

GNV7:8

For like ye noyse of the thornes vnder the pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.

JPS

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

LXXE

As the sound of thorns under a caldron, so is the laughter of fools: this is also vanity.

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Original-language editions

WLC

כִּ֣י כְק֤וֹל הַסִּירִים֙ תַּ֣חַת הַסִּ֔יר כֵּ֖ן שְׂחֹ֣ק הַכְּסִ֑יל וְגַם־זֶ֖ה הָֽבֶל׃

LXX-Br

Ὡς φωνὴ ἀκανθῶν ὑπὸ τὸν λέβητα, οὕτως γέλως τῶν ἀφρόνων· καί γε τοῦτο ματαιότης.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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. Their eyes are…
• 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. My servants will shout…
• Proverbs 29:9If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.

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