James 4:9. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Genesis 21:6. And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Job 8:21. Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
Job 17:6. He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Proverbs 10:23. It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 2:2. I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
Ecclesiastes 7:3. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Ecclesiastes 7:6. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 10:19. A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
Wisdom of Solomon 5:4. We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour.
Sirach 21:20. The mouth of the prudent is sought after in the church, and they will think upon his words in their hearts.
Sirach 27:13. In the midst of the unwise keep in the word till its time: but be continually among men that think.
Jeremiah 20:7. O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
Jeremiah 48:26. Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
Jeremiah 48:39. They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
Lamentations 3:14. I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Amos 7:9. And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
Micah 1:10. Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.