(A)Be not quick in your spirit to become angry,
    (B)for anger lodges in the heart[a] of fools.
10 Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?”
    For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:9 Hebrew in the bosom

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