Ecclesiastes 7:6

Ecclesiastes 7:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
• New International Version (NIV)Like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of fools. This too is meaningless.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, So is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

Context of Ecclesiastes 7:6

4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure. 5It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools. For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile. 7Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart. 8The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.

Ecclesiastes 7:6 word by word

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

• Forכִּיkîy · forH3588
• like the cracklingקוֹלqôl qôl · voice: soundH6963
• of thornsסִירsîyr sîyrâh sirâh · thornH5518
• underתַּחַתtachath · underneath: underH8478
• the potסִירsîyr sîyrâh sirâh · potH5518
• soכֵּןkên · soH3651
• is the laughterשְׂחֹקώechôq ώechôq · laughterH7814
• of the foolכְּסִילkesîyl · foolH3684
• Thisזֶהzeh · thisH2088
• tooגַּםgam · alsoH1571
• is futileהֶ֫בֶלhebel hăbêl · vanityH1892

Cross-references for Ecclesiastes 7:6

• Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
• 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.
• Isaiah 65:13Therefore 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.
• 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 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.
• 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 2:13The 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.
• Jude 1:12These 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.
• Proverbs 29:9If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.

Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 7:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6For as the crackling of thorns - They make a great noise, a great blaze; and are extinguished in a few moments. Such indeed, comparatively, are the joys of life; they are noisy, flashy, and transitory.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6As the crackling of thorns - Noisy while it lasts, and quickly extinguished. See Psalm 58:9 note.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6Praise from a fool and enjoying a fool’s laughter are temporary and worthless. Criticism from a wise person can lead to real benefits (Proverbs 17:10).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. crackling--answers to the loud merriment of fools. It is the very fire consuming them which produces the seeming merry noise (Joe 2:5). Their light soon goes out in the black darkness. There is a paronomasia in the Hebrew, Sirim ("thorns"), Sir ("pot"). The wicked are often compared to "thorns" (2Sa 23:6; Na 1:10). Dried cow-dung was the common fuel in Palestine; its slowness in burning makes the quickness of a fire of thorns the more graphic, as an…Read the comment

Topics related to Ecclesiastes 7:6

• Happiness
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In the dictionaries

• Adversity
• Bosom
• Consider
• Crackling
• Fuel
• Living
• Rest
• Botany
• Fire
• Fool; Folly

Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings