He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.

• Job 8:21

A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance

• Job 41:29

The righteous will see and fear; they will laugh at you, saying,

• Psalm 52:6

But you laugh at them, Lord; you scoff at all those nations.

• Psalm 59:8

Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”

• Psalm 126:2

This is a quiz about verses containing the word “laugh” in the forms of laugh, laughs, or laughter.

The questions are in biblical order.  And most questions are from the Old Testament.

The Questions:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	Who laughed when she was told that she would give birth at her advanced age?
2	What book in the Bible has more references to “laugh” than any other book?
3	What in Psalm 2 does God find laughable?
4	Why in Psalm 37 does God laugh at the wicked?
5	Who is the writer of Proverbs speaking about when he says that she is clothed in strength and dignity and will laugh at the days to come?
6	What is the reason for the author of Ecclesiastes to say Laughter is madness?
7	In all the “time to …” couplets, what is compared to laugh?
8	Near the beginning of Lamentations, what is being laughed at by her enemies?
9	Half of the six references to “laugh” in the NT speak of Jesus being laughed at, because the girl was dead.  Who was the girl?
10	Why does James say we should turn our laughter into mourning?

On the fiftieth anniversary of becoming a Christian, I put on a Comedy Show at our church.  I paid homage to Justin Wilson, Jerry Clower, Ken Davis, and Mark Lowry, but I threw in some of my own humor also.  Then I ended with my testimony.

My Dad’s job status changed a lot when I was growing up and we moved a few times.  All of this was after we lost the turkey farm when I was in first / second grade.  And I never remember my mother smiling, other than for a rare photograph, like at my wedding, and she bickered about how the photographer was so bossy, but in the photo above, I am saying, “If that cameraman doesn’t stop taking pictures, I am going to shove his camera up his backside.”  Yes, he won some awards for one of those wedding pictures, but our reception was about two-three hours long and it was posing for photographs for ninety percent of that time.  And the other ten percent was sneaking off to change.  I don’t think I drank any of the punch.  And eating the cake was only a photo op.  By then, everyone in the photo agreed with me.

But I made a comedy sketch out of when my mother first saw Gladys Ormphby and Tyrone F. Horneigh.  When Gladys started beating Tyrone with her purse, I thought my mother was having a heart attack.  I went to the phone, a party line, to call for an ambulance, long before 911.  While I was thumbing through the phone book, she recovered enough to say, “Put the phone down, idiot! I was just laughing.”  I knew not to talk back to my mother, but I wanted to say, “Excuse me!  I’ve never seen you do that before!!!”  Of course, I hammed up the whole thing, but the whole thing was true, from as early as I could remember until I was sixteen, and I had never seen my mother laugh.

About a year later, I became a Christian although I had been in church most of my life.

The kids at school had, almost all of them, accepted Jesus and they had Joy, and in our home, I voraciously studied comedy in all forms, not knowing that Joy came from the Lord and a moment of laughter was a poor substitute.  I finally surrendered to Jesus, giving up on my hundreds of times saying the salvation prayer.

Now, I can have Joy in the midst of sorrow, Joy while suffering, for Jesus is in my heart.

Bible References:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	Who laughed when she was told that she would give birth at her advanced age?	Genesis 19:13-15
2	What book in the Bible has more references to “laugh” than any other book?	N/A
3	What in Psalm 2 does God find laughable?	Psalm 2:1-4
4	Why in Psalm 37 does God laugh at the wicked?	Psalm 37:13
5	Who is the writer of Proverbs speaking about when he says that she is clothed in strength and dignity and will laugh at the days to come?	Proverbs 31:25
6	What is the reason for the author of Ecclesiastes to say Laughter is madness?	Ecclesiastes 2:2
7	In all the “time to …” couplets, what is compared to laugh?	Ecclesiastes 3:4
8	Near the beginning of Lamentations, what is being laughed at by her enemies?	Lamentations 1:7
9	Half of the six references to “laugh” in the NT speak of Jesus being laughed at, because the girl was dead.  Who was the girl?	Matthew 9:24; Mark 5:40; Luke 8:53
10	Why does James say we should turn our laughter into mourning?	James 4:7-10

These are some of my favorite “laugh” quotes:

“To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think — spend some time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move you to tears. If you laugh, think and cry, that’s a heck of a day.”

• Jim Valvano

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

• Charlie Chaplin

“Laughter is the closest distance between two people.”

• Victor Borge

And “Laughter is the best medicine” has been attributed to so many people, who knows who said it first!!!

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The Answers:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	Who laughed when she was told that she would give birth at her advanced age?	Genesis 19:13-15	Sarah
2	What book in the Bible has more references to “laugh” than any other book?	N/A	Job (7), six in Genesis, and five each in Psalms and Ecclesiastes.
3	What in Psalm 2 does God find laughable?	Psalm 2:1-4	The schemes of the nations who plot against God’s anointed.
4	Why in Psalm 37 does God laugh at the wicked?	Psalm 37:13	For he knows their day is coming.
5	Who is the writer of Proverbs speaking about when he says that she is clothed in strength and dignity and will laugh at the days to come?	Proverbs 31:25	The woman of noble character
6	What is the reason for the author of Ecclesiastes to say Laughter is madness?	Ecclesiastes 2:2	What does pleasure accomplish?
7	In all the “time to …” couplets, what is compared to laugh?	Ecclesiastes 3:4	A time to weep and a time to laugh
8	Near the beginning of Lamentations, what is being laughed at by her enemies?	Lamentations 1:7	The destruction of “the city”, Jerusalem
9	Half of the six references to “laugh” in the NT speak of Jesus being laughed at, because the girl was dead.  Who was the girl?	Matthew 9:24; Mark 5:40; Luke 8:53	All the same person but: synagogue leader (Matthew); adding Jairus (Mark and Luke))
10	Why does James say we should turn our laughter into mourning?	James 4:7-10	If we humble ourselves before God, He will lift us up.

Whether you did well on this quiz or, ummm, not so well, for the first video.  Here is Ken Davis performing Super Sheep.  The message is nearly an hour and the “Super Sheep” starts about halfway through, but the beginning is a great sermon on its own.

And here is Mark Lowry performing I Survived a Tornado.

And here is Chonda Pierce performing Laugh-Cry-Love.

And here is Tim Hawkins performing Wrong Psalm.

If you like these Saturday morning Bible quizzes, but you think you missed a few, you can use this LINK. I have set up a page off the home page for links to these Saturday morning posts. I will continue to modify the page as I add more.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.