Ecclesiastes 7:9 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Do not be quick in spirit to be angry or vexed, for anger and vexation lodge in the bosom of fools. [James 1:19, 20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Common English Bible

⁹ Don’t be too quick to get angry because anger lives in the fool’s heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ The end of a speech is better than the beginning. Patience is better than arrogance.

English Standard Version 2016

⁹ Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:9 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 4:8

And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.

2 Samuel 13:22

But Absalom spoke not to Amnon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Amnon because he had ravished his sister Thamar.

2 Samuel 13:28

And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying: Take notice when Amnon shall be drunk with wine, and when I shall say to you: Strike him, and kill him; fear not, for it is I that command you. Take courage, and be valiant men.

2 Samuel 13:32

But Jonadab the son of Semmaa David's brother answering said. Let not my lord the king think that all the king's sons are slain: Amnon only is dead, for he was appointed by the mouth of Absalom from the day that he ravished his sister Thamar.

2 Samuel 19:43

And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said: I have ten parts in the king more than thou; and David belongeth to me more than to thee. Why hast thou done me a wrong, and why was it not told me first, that I might bring back my king? And the men of Juda answered more harshly than the men of Israel.

Proverbs 14:17

The impatient man shall work folly: and the crafty man is hateful.

Proverbs 14:29

He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.

Proverbs 16:32

The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh cities.

Proverbs 25:8

The things which thy eyes have seen, utter not hastily in a quarrel: lest afterward thou mayst not be able to make amends, when thou hast dishonoured thy friend.

Ecclesiastes 7:10

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

Jonah 4:3

And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.

Jonah 4:8

And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.

Jonah 4:9

And the Lord said to Jonas: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry with reason even unto death.

Mark 6:19

Now Herodias laid snares for him: and was desirous to put him to death, and could not.

Mark 6:24

Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But she said: The head of John the Baptist.

James 1:19

You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger.