Ecclesiastes 7:6-8

Jubilee Bible 2000

⁶ The laughter of the fool is as the crackling of thorns under a pot, and this also (the laughter or prosperity of the fool) is vanity.

⁷ ¶ Surely oppression makes a wise man mad, and a gift destroys the heart.

⁸ Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and he who has suffered in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.