"For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity."
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If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
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.
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
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;
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;
I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
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.
Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So `is' the laughter of a fool, even this `is' vanity.