Ecclesiastes 7:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:11

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

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is your mother’s bill of divorce with which I dismissed her? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? No, because of your sins you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.

Judges 6:13

Gideon answered him, “But sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has cast us off and given us into the hand of Midian.”