God never laughs in the Bible.
Oh, he sneers, sure. Feels derision, and mockery. But schadenfreude seems to be the only form of humor Jehovah ever experiences throughout the entirety of scripture.
Anybody else find that, a little, ya know, odd?
The creator of the universe never once felt a genuinely good-hearted laugh?
In fact, the Bible is remarkably short of laughter, or humor. Even Sarah's laughter can only be construed as the justified snickering of an old woman.
Jesus never did, either. Though he wept.
I think that translation does not help here, I would also question what humor as like in the culture when the bible was written?
I don't have answers but placing a 21st century mindset on an ancient document is often problematic.
Well...There is this...I mean you have to admit that OUR LORD had to have been chuckling inside when he re-named the Disciples (kind of a dry English-type humor) lain:
A priest once confessed to me that he sometimes suspects that God put us here to see if we could take a joke.
....And then there is this. The first thing which entered my mind was that how do you know he doesn't and that it's just that, at this particular point in time, we aren't in on the joke? :idunno: