Ecclesiastes 7:10 - American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Do not say, Why were the old days better than these? For it is not wise or because of wisdom that you ask this.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Don’t ask, “How is it that the former days were better than these?” because it isn’t wise to ask this.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Do not be quickly moved to anger. For anger resides in the sinews of the foolish.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁰ Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

Ecclesiastes 7:10 Tagairtí Cros

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance; yea, more excellent is it for them that see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

Judges 6:13

And Gideon said unto him, Oh, my lord, if Jehovah is with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Jehovah bring us up from Egypt? but now Jehovah hath cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.