Ecclesiastes 9:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouting of a ruler among fools.

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Whoever rebukes a person will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

for human anger does not produce God’s righteousness.

He will not cry out or lift up his voice or make it heard in the street;

He will not grow faint or be crushed until he has established justice in the earth, and the coastlands wait for his teaching.

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.

Words spoken by the wise bring them favor, but the lips of fools consume them.

When he had said this, he dismissed the assembly.