Painful Laughter

Proverbs 14:13

• Happiness

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

Ecclesiastes 7:3

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

1 Chronicles 4:10

• Prayer

And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

Genesis 21:6

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

James 4:9

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

Proverbs 17:22

• Disease

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

Psalms 2:4

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