12 They surrounded me (A)like bees;
They were extinguished like a (B)fire of thorn bushes;
In the name of the Lord I will certainly fend them off.

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For as the [a]crackling of (A)thorn bushes under a pot,
So is the (B)laughter of the fool;
And this too is futility.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:6 Lit voice

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