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

As thorns are weak, useless, and unprofitable; yea, hurtful and pernicious, and only fit for burning; so are foolish and wicked men.

The complete verse may be translated: • Like the sound of twigs burning under a pot, so is the laughter of fools. It makes noise, but it accomplishes nothing.

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Some realities are difficult to accept but can lead to an awareness of the value of life. They provide an opportunity to gain wisdom.

In these verses Solomon lays down some great truths which seem paradoxes to the unthinking part, that is, the far greatest part, of mankind.

6 A foolish person's laughter is like the crackling of thorns burning under a pot. That doesn't have any meaning either. Ecclesiastes 7:6 Meaning and Commentary.

David Guzik commentary on Ecclesiastes 7, which considers life through better and worse, and looks at wisdom to give the right perspective on life.

We were born to uncertainty, but a good man does not die at uncertainty. The day of our birth clogged our souls with the burden of the flesh, but the day of our ...