Job 8:21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,
and your lips with shouting.
and your lips with shouting.
Job 12:4 I am a laughingstock to my friends;
I, who called to God and he answered me,
a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
I, who called to God and he answered me,
a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
Psa 126:2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
Pro 10:23 Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool,
but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.
but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.
Pro 14:13 Even in laughter the heart may ache,
and the end of joy may be grief.
and the end of joy may be grief.
Ecc 2:2 I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
Ecc 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter,
for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.
for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.
Ecc 7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot,
so is the laughter of the fools;
this also is vanity.
so is the laughter of the fools;
this also is vanity.
Ecc 10:19 Bread is made for laughter,
and wine gladdens life,
and money answers everything.
and wine gladdens life,
and money answers everything.
Jer 20:7 O Lord, you have deceived me,
and I was deceived;
you are stronger than I,
and you have prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all the day;
everyone mocks me.
and I was deceived;
you are stronger than I,
and you have prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all the day;
everyone mocks me.
Jer 48:26 “Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the Lord, so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.
Jer 48:27 Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?
Jer 48:39 How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.”
Lam 3:14 I have become the laughingstock of all my people,
the object of their taunts all day long.
the object of their taunts all day long.
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