Ecclesiastes 7:10

The Scriptures 2009

Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not wise of you to have asked about this.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:11

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

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be hasty in your spirit to be vexed, for vexation rests in the bosom of fools.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says יהוה, “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Look, you were sold for your crookednesses, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

Judges 6:13

And Giḏ‛on said to Him, “O my master, if יהוה is with us, why has all this come upon us? And where are all His wonders which our fathers related to us, saying, ‘Did not יהוה bring us up from Mitsrayim?’ But now יהוה has left us and given us into the hands of Miḏyan.”