Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 7:10 - English Standard Version 2016 Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Do not say, Why were the old days better than these? For it is not wise or because of wisdom that you ask this. American Standard Version (1901) Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. Common English Bible Don’t ask, “How is it that the former days were better than these?” because it isn’t wise to ask this. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not be quickly moved to anger. For anger resides in the sinews of the foolish. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool. |
Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
And Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.”