Ecclesiastes 7:6
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For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
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They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
I 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.
But 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.
If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.