12 (A)They surrounded me like bees;
    they went out like (B)a fire among thorns;
    in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

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12 They swarmed around me like bees,(A)
    but they were consumed as quickly as burning thorns;(B)
    in the name of the Lord I cut them down.(C)

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(A)For as the crackling of (B)thorns under a pot,
    so is the laughter of the fools;
    this also is vanity.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:6 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)

Like the crackling of thorns(A) under the pot,
    so is the laughter(B) of fools.
    This too is meaningless.

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