Crackling Thorns and the Fool?

Ecclesiastes 7:6

For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, So is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

Solomon seems to have gone into full Proverbs mode here as he dishes out wisdom on foolishness and wisdom. And much like Proverbs, some of them cause us to pause and scratch our heads. I don’t know about you, but this was one of those verses to me, as I looked and wondered what a crackling thorn has to do with foolish laughter. Well I did my research; I looked the verse up in two different study Bible’s, four Bible translations, and one commentary, and I have an answer

A "crackling thorn" deals with a burning thorn, like one in a fire, the thorns, or weeds burn quickly and produce a lot of noise as they go. They flare up and produce smoke, but soon turn to ash and blow away. In the end, the burning thorns produce little, they produce little heat, little light, and they are basically pointless. The pot deals with a cooking pot, it gains no heat from the "crackling of thorns."

The laughter of a fool is like this as well, its loud, it’s quick, but it’s meaningless. The fool will not laugh for long; as none of us are long for this earth. The laughter of a fool is vanity.

How sad it is that we have often seen the laughter of fools, and had a twinge of jealousy in our hearts. We see their care free hearts go through life, enjoying the things of this world with no thought to their eternity. Yet this sort of lifestyle is foolishness and we know it. Sure there here today, some of them are loud, or shining, some of them may blow a lot of hot air that can be seen for miles around. Yet there time is only like a flash, and then they are gone. When we have Christ we are here to stay.

Christ covers this thought in his teachings of the B-Attitudes in the book of Luke

Luke 6: 21, 25

21 Blessed are you who hunger now,
For you shall be filled.
      Blessed are you who weep now,
For you shall laugh

25 Woe to you who are full,
For you shall hunger.
      Woe to you who laugh now,
For you shall mourn and weep.

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