Ecclesiastes 7:4-6

4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
5It is abetter for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise
than to hear the song of fools.
6 bFor as the crackling of cthorns under a pot,
so is the laughter of the fools;
this also is vanity.
The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)

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