Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry, || For anger in the bosom of fools rests.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

In Context

8Better [is] the latter end of a thing than its beginning, || Better [is] the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.

10Do not say, “What was it, || That the former days were better than these?” For you have not asked wisely of this.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:5and to Cain and to his present He has not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.

Genesis 34:7and the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard, and the men grieve themselves, and it [is] very displeasing to them, for folly he has done against Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob—and so it is not done.

Genesis 34:30And Jacob says to Simeon and to Levi, “You have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanite, and among the Perizzite: and I [am] few in number, and they have been gathered against me, and have struck me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house.”

2 Samuel 13:22and Absalom has not spoken with Amnon either evil or good, for Absalom is hating Amnon, because that he humbled his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 13:32And Jonadab son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answers and says, “Do not let my lord say, The whole of the young men, the sons of the king, they have put to death; for Amnon alone [is] dead, for it has been appointed by the command of Absalom from the day of his humbling his sister Tamar;

Esther 3:5And Haman sees that Mordecai is not bowing and doing homage to him, and Haman is full of fury,

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:8-11

Scenes of Mourning and of Joy. 7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. 8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. 9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. Solomon had often complained before of the oppressions which he saw under the… Read the whole commentary →

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