コヘレトの言葉 7:8

聖書日本語

8 事の終りはその初めよりも良い。耐え忍ぶ心は、おごり高ぶる心にまさる。

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Better: Psalms 126:5, Psalms 126:6, Isaiah 10:24, Isaiah 10:25, Isaiah 10:28-34, Luke 16:25, James 5:11, 1 Peter 1:13

the patient: Proverbs 13:10, Proverbs 14:29, Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 16:32, Proverbs 28:25, Luke 21:19, Romans 2:7, Romans 2:8, Hebrews 10:36, James 5:8, 1 Peter 2:20, 1 Peter 2:21, 1 Peter 5:5, 1 Peter 5:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:36 - all these things are against me 1 Kings 12:14 - My father made 1 Kings 21:4 - And he laid him 2 Chronicles 10:14 - My father Job 42:12 - So Proverbs 17:14 - leave Proverbs 21:24 - haughty 1 Corinthians 13:4 - vaunteth not itself 1 Timothy 3:3 - patient James 1:19 - slow to wrath

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Better [is] the end of a thing than the beginning thereof,.... If the thing is good, other ways the end of it is worse; as the end of wickedness and wicked men, whose beginning is sweet, but the end bitter; yea, are the ways of death, Proverbs 5:4; and so the end of carnal professors and apostates, who begin in the Spirit, and end in the flesh, Galatians 3:3; but the end of good things, and of good men, is better than the beginning; as the end of Job was, both with respect to things temporal and spiritual, Job 8:7; see

Psalms 37:37;

[and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit; patience is a fruit of the Spirit of God; and is of great use in the Christian's life, and especially in bearing afflictions, and tends to make men more humble, meek, and quiet; and such are highly esteemed of God; on them he looks, with them he dwells, and to them he gives more grace; when such who are proud, and elated with themselves, their riches or righteousness, are abominable to him; see Luke 16:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Better - Inasmuch as something certain is attained, man contemplates the end throughout an entire course of action, and does not rest upon the beginning.

Patient ... proud - literally, “Long,” long-suffering ...“high,” in the sense of impatient.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 7:8. Better is the end — We can then judge of the whole, and especially if the matter relate to the conduct of Divine Providence. At the beginning we are often apt to make very rash conjectures, and often suppose that such and such things are against us; and that every thing is going wrong. Dr. Byrom gives good advice on such a subject: -

"With patient mind thy course of duty run:

God nothing does, nor suffers to be done,

But thou wouldst do thyself, couldst thou but see

The end of all events, as well as HE."

I may add, in the words of our paraphrast: -

"Wait the result, nor ask with frantic rage

Why God permits such things. His ways, though now

Involved in clouds and darkness, will appear

All right, when from thine eyes the mist is cleared.

Till then, to learn submission to his will

More wisdom shows, than vainly thus to attempt

Exploring what thou canst not comprehend,

And God for wisest ends thinks fit to hide."

C.