(A)Be not quick in your spirit to become angry,
    (B)for anger lodges in the heart[a] of fools.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:9 Hebrew in the bosom

16 (A)The vexation of a fool is known at once,
    but the prudent ignores an insult.

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11 A fool gives full vent to his spirit,
    but a wise man quietly holds it back.

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