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Ecclesiastes 7:9
Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.
Ecclesiastes 7:9 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Ecclesiastes 7:9 in other translations
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
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In context
6 It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattery of fools.
7 For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.
8 Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart.
9 Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.
10 Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.
11 Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.
12 Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun.
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