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The end of something is better than its beginning.
    Patience is better than arrogance.
Don’t be too quick to get angry
    because anger lives in the fool’s heart.
10 Don’t ask, “How is it that the former days were better than these?”
    because it isn’t wise to ask this.
11 Wisdom is as good as[a] an inheritance—
    an advantage for those who see the sun.
12 Wisdom’s protection is like the protection of money;
    the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the lives of its possessors.

Good times and bad

13 Consider God’s work! Who can straighten what God has made crooked?

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:11 Or Wisdom is good with

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