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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Cross references
- Psalm 58:9 Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
- Psalm 118:12 They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- Ecclesiastes 2:2 I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”