Ecclesiastes 7:10

Modern English Version

Do not say, “Why were the earlier days better than these days?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

Cross References

Judges 6:13

Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the Lord is with us, then why has all this happened to us? Where are all His miracles that our fathers told us about? They said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us out of Egypt?’ Yet now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.”

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is the certificate of divorce by which I sent your mother away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be quick in your spirit to be angry, for anger settles in the bosom of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is good as an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.