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Ecclesiastes 7:9
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Don’t let your spirit rush to be angry,for anger abides in the heart of fools.
Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
Do not be eager in your spirit to be angry, For anger resides in the heart of fools.
Don't become angry quickly, because getting angry is foolish.
Do not be eager in your heart to be angry, For anger dwells in the heart of fools.
Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Be not thou of an hastie spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.
Do not be eager in your spirit to be vexed,For vexation rests in the bosom of fools.
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
Only fools get angry quickly and hold a grudge.
Don't be quick to get angry, for [only] fools nurse anger.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be vexed; for vexation resteth in the bosom of fools.
Don't become angry quickly, because anger is foolish.
Be not hastily angry, for anger rests in the bosom of the fools.
Keep your temper under control; it is foolish to harbor a grudge.
Do not be quick in your spirit to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry; for vexation rests in the bosom of fools.
Be not haistely angrie in yi mynde, for wrath resteth in the bosome of a foole.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Be not hastie in thy spirit to bee angry: for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.
Be not hastyly angrie in thy minde: for wrath resteth in the bosome of fooles.
The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof: the patient is better than the high-minded.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Be thou not swift to be wrooth; for ire restith in the bosum of a fool.
Don't be in a hurry in your spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Do not let yourself be quickly provoked, for anger resides in the lap of fools.
Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, For anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Control your temper, for anger labels you a fool.
Do not be quick in spirit to be angry. For anger is in the heart of fools.
Do not be quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
Do not be rash in thy spirit, to be indignant, - for, indignation, in the bosom of dullards, doth remain.
(7-10) Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.
Be not quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.
Do not be eager in your heart to be angry, For anger resides in the bosom of fools.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hasty: 1 Samuel 25:21, 1 Samuel 25:22, 2 Samuel 19:43, Esther 3:5, Esther 3:6, Proverbs 14:17, Proverbs 16:32, Jonah 4:9, Ephesians 4:26, Ephesians 4:27, James 1:19
anger: Genesis 4:5, Genesis 4:6, Genesis 4:8, Genesis 34:7, Genesis 34:8, Genesis 34:25, Genesis 34:26, Genesis 34:30, Genesis 34:31, 2 Samuel 13:22, 2 Samuel 13:28, 2 Samuel 13:32, Proverbs 26:23-26, Mark 6:19, Mark 6:24
Reciprocal: Genesis 27:41 - then 1 Samuel 20:32 - what hath 1 Kings 21:4 - And he laid him Esther 5:10 - refrained Job 5:2 - the foolish Job 20:2 - and for Proverbs 14:29 - but Proverbs 17:14 - leave Proverbs 19:2 - and Proverbs 21:24 - haughty Amos 1:11 - kept 1 Corinthians 13:4 - vaunteth not itself Ephesians 4:31 - wrath Titus 1:7 - not soon
Cross-References
Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth. Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood. Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. In seven days the floodwaters came.
It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open. Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.
In Christ's family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ. Also, since you are Christ's family, then you are Abraham's famous "descendant," heirs according to the covenant promises.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry,.... With men, for every word that is said, or action done, that is not agreeable; encourage not, but repress, sudden angry emotions of the mind; be not quick of resentment, and at once express anger and displeasure; but be slow to wrath, for such a man is better than the mighty, James 1:19
Proverbs 16:32; or with God, for his corrections and chastisements; so the Targum,
"in the time that correction from heaven comes upon thee, do not hasten in thy soul to be hot (or angry) to say words of rebellion (or stubbornness) against heaven;''
that advice is good,
"do nothing in anger l;''
for anger resteth in the bosom of fools; where it riseth quick, and continues long; here it soon betrays itself, and finds easy admittance, and a resting dwelling place; it easily gets in, but it is difficult to get it out of the heart of a fool; both which are proofs of his folly,
Proverbs 12:16; see Ephesians 4:26; the bosom, or breast, is commonly represented as the seat of anger by other writers m.
l Isocrates ad Nicoclem, p. 36. m "In pectoribus ira considit", Petronius; "iram sanguinei regio sub pectore cordis", Claudian. de 4. Consul. Honor. Panegyr. v. 241.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ecclesiastes 7:9. Anger resteth in the bosom of fools. — A wise man, off his guard, may feel it for a moment: but in him it cannot rest: it is a fire which he immediately casts out of his breast. But the fool - the man who is under the dominion of his own tempers, harbours and fosters it, till it takes the form of malice, and then excites him to seek full revenge on those whom he deems enemies. Hence that class of dangerous and empty fools called duellists.
