Ecclesiastes 7:9 {10}
Good News Translation
Keep your temper under control; it is foolish to harbor a grudge.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not be quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

Contemporary English Version
Only fools get angry quickly and hold a grudge.

New American Bible
Do not let anger upset your spirit, for anger lodges in the bosom of a fool.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.

hasty

1 Samuel 25:21,22 And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to this fellow in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good. . . .

2 Samuel 19:43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said: I have ten parts in the king more than thou, and David belongeth to me more than to thee: why hast thou done me a wrong, and why was it not told me first, that I might bring back my king? And the men of Juda answered more harshly than the men of Israel.

Esther 3:5,6 Now when Aman had heard this, and had proved by experience that Mardochai did not bend his knee to him, nor worship him, he was exceeding angry. . . .

Proverbs 14:17 The impatient man shall work folly: and the crafty man is hateful.

Proverbs 16:32 The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh cities.

Jonah 4:9 And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.

Ephesians 4:26,27 Be angry: and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. . . .

James 1:19 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.

anger

Genesis 4:5,6,8 But to Cain and his offerings he had no respect: and Cain was exceeding angry, and his countenance fell. . . .

Genesis 34:7,8,25,26,30,31 Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob's daughter. . . .

2 Samuel 13:22,28,32 But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar. . . .

Proverbs 26:23-26 Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthern vessel adorned with silver dross. . . .

Mark 6:19,24 Now Herodias laid snares for him: and was desirous to put him to death and could not. . . .

Context
The Value of Wisdom
8Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous. 9Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.10Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.…
Cross References
James 1:19
You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.

Proverbs 14:17
The impatient man shall work folly: and the crafty man is hateful.

Proverbs 14:29
He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.

Ecclesiastes 7:10
Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.

Ecclesiastes 7:8
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