6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
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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.
I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
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; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)In these verses Solomon lays down some great truths which seem paradoxes to the unthinking part, that is, the far greatest part, of mankind. I. That the honour of virtue is really more valuable and desirable than all the wealth and pleasure in this world (Eccl. 7:1): A good name is before good ointment (so it may be read); it is preferable to it, and will be rather chosen by all that are wise. Goo…
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