Thematic Bible: Manifested in laughter


Thematic Bible




Sorrow is better than laughter,
For when a face is sad a heart may be happy.

For as the crackling of thorn bushes under a pot,
So is the laughter of the fool;
And this too is futility.

Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.

Woe to you who are well-fed now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

I said of laughter, “It is madness,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”