Ecclesiastes 7:9
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.
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
- KJV
- Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
- WEB
- Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
- ASV
- Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
- DARBY
- Be not hasty in thy spirit to be vexed; for vexation resteth in the bosom of fools.
- BLB
- Do not hurry in your spirit to become angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
- ÅB
- Vær ikke for hastig i din ånd til å vredes; for vreden bor i dårers barm.
- OTB
- Vær ikke rask til å bli sint, for sinne bor i dårers barm.
- B1930
- Vær ikke for hastig i din ånd til å vredes; for vreden bor i dårers barm.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Read in contextProverbs 14:17
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
Read in contextProverbs 16:32
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Read in contextEphesians 4:26–27
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Read in contextProverbs 26:23–26
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Read in contextGenesis 34:30–31
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
Read in contextGenesis 34:7–8
And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
Read in contextGenesis 34:25–26
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
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