Laughing

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• Genesis 21:6

  And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

• Ecclesiastes 3:4

  A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

• Psalms 126:2

  Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

• Proverbs 17:22

  A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

• Job 8:21

  Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

• Luke 6:21

  Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

• Genesis 18:12–15

  Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. …

• Psalms 2:4

  He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

• Proverbs 14:13

  Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

• Proverbs 31:25

  Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

• James 4:9

  Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

• Luke 6:25

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

• Psalms 37:12–13

  The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

• Psalms 59:8

  But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.

• Psalms 37:13

  The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

• Proverbs 29:9

  If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

• Ecclesiastes 7:3

  Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

• Job 39:18

  What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

• Habakkuk 1:10

  And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

• Genesis 17:17

  Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

• Job 41:29

  Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.