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Ecclesiastes 7:9
Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:9 · World English Bible
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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.
Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
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In context
6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
7 Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.
8 Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
9 Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
10 Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.
11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
12 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
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