Ecclesiastes 7:10

New American Bible - revised edition

Do not say: How is it that former times were better than these? For it is not out of wisdom that you ask about this.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance and profitable to those who see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

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

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is the bill of divorce with which I dismissed your mother? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? It was for your sins you were sold, for your rebellions your mother was dismissed.

Judges 6:13

“My lord,” Gideon said to him, “if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are his wondrous deeds about which our ancestors told us when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ For now the Lord has abandoned us and has delivered us into the power of Midian.”