Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
crackling—answers to the loud merriment of fools. It is the very fire consuming them which produces the seeming merry noise (Joel 2:5). Their light soon goes out in the black darkness. There is a paronomasia in the Hebrew, Sirim ("thorns"), Sir ("pot"). The wicked are often compared to "thorns" (II Samuel 23:6; Nahum 1:10). Dried cow-dung was the common fuel in Palestine; its slowness in burning makes the quickness of a fire of thorns the more graphic, as an image of the sudden end of fools (Psalms 118:12).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ecclesiastes 7:6:
Ecclesiastes 2:2
Ecclesiastes 7:7
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