SinaiEcclesiastes 7:8
World English Bible
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning.
The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
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Ecclesiastes 7:8 in other translations
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 in context
- 6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
- 7Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.
- 8Better is the end of a thing than its beginning.
The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. - 9Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
- 10Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.