Cross references
Ecclesiastes 7:6
For like the crackling of thorns under the pot,
so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
Ecclesiastes 7:6 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 58:9 (8 votes) and Psalm 118:12 (8 votes). 8 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from 1 Kings 1 to Jude 1.
Which verses does Ecclesiastes 7:6 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Psalm 58:98 votes
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
- Psalm 118:128 votes
They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26 votes
I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
- Luke 6:254 votes
Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
- Jude 1:12–133 votes
These 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. They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
- Proverbs 29:92 votes
If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.
- Isaiah 65:13–152 votes
Therefore 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. My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit. …
- Amos 8:102 votes
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.
- Luke 16:252 votes
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.
- 2 Peter 2:13–172 votes
The 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. Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed. …
Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 7:6?
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