I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What use is it?

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

They encompassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed:

And you shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay you, and call his servants by another name:

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon every waist, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and its end as a bitter day.

Woe unto you that are full! for you shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for you shall mourn and weep.

But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented.

And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, reveling themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

Who have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.

These are spots in your love feasts, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about by winds; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether the foolish man rages or laughs, there is no rest.