King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 7:9
“Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 7
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.
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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.
11
Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.
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