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Ecclesiastes 7:6
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

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Proverbs 14:13
Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

Ecclesiastes 2:2
I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

Luke 6:25
Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Ecclesiastes 2:10
Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Isaiah 16:10
Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

Luke 16:25
“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted and you are in anguish.

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Psalms 118:12
They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

Psalms 58:9
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

Nahum 1:10
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

2 Samuel 23:6
But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand.

Joel 2:5
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.

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1 John 1:4
And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

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