Ecclesiastes 7:9

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Be thou not swift to be wroth; for ire resteth in the bosom of a fool.

Cross References

Genesis 4:8

And Cain said to Abel, his brother, Go we out. And when they were in the field, Cain rose against his brother Abel, and killed him.

2 Samuel 13:22

And Absalom spake not to Amnon, neither evil nor good; for Absalom hated Amnon, for he had defouled Tamar, his sister.

2 Samuel 13:28

And Absalom had made a feast as the feast of a king. And Absalom [had] commanded to his children, and said, Espy ye, when Amnon is drunken of wine, and when I say to you, Smite ye, and slayeth him. Do not ye dread, for I am that command to you; be ye strengthened, and be ye strong men.

2 Samuel 13:32

But Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, brother of David, answered and said, My lord the king, guess thou not, that all the young men, and sons of the king, be slain; Amnon alone is dead, for he was set in hatred to Absalom, from the day in which he oppressed Tamar, his sister.

2 Samuel 19:43

And a man of Israel answered to the men of Judah, and said, I am greater by ten parts to the king, and David pertaineth more to me than to thee; why hast thou done wrong to me, and it was not told to me the former, that I should bring again my king? Forsooth the men of Judah answered harder to the men of Israel.

Proverbs 14:17

A man unpatient shall work folly; and a guileful man is odious.

Proverbs 14:29

He that is patient, is governed by much wisdom; but he that is unpatient, enhanceth his folly.

Proverbs 16:32

A patient man is better than a strong man; and he that is lord of his soul, is better than an overcomer of cities.

Proverbs 25:8

Bring thou not forth soon those things in strife, which thine eyes saw; lest afterward thou mayest not amend, when thou hast made thy friend unhonest or he hath shamed thee.

Ecclesiastes 7:10

Say thou not, What guessest thou is the cause, that the former times were better than be now? for why such asking is fond or foolish.

Jonah 4:3

And now, Lord, I pray, take my life from me; for death is better to me than life.

Jonah 4:8

And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded to the hot wind and burning; and the sun smote on the head of Jonah, and he sweltered. And he asked to his soul that he should die, and said, It is better to me to die, than to live.

Jonah 4:9

And the Lord said to Jonah, Guessest thou, whether thou art well wroth on the ivy? And he said, I am well wroth, till to the death.

Mark 6:19

And Herodias laid ambush to him, and would slay him, and might not.

Mark 6:24

And when she had gone out, she said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John [the] Baptist.

James 1:19

Know ye, my brethren most loved, be each man swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to wrath;