Ecclesiastes 7:9
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
Note Hebrew in the bosom of fools
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Read Ecclesiastes 7 in context
Topics Anger
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- hasty
- 1 Samuel 25:21, 22; 2 Samuel 19:43; Esther 3:5, 6; Proverbs 14:17; Proverbs 16:32; Jonah 4:9; Ephesians 4:26, 27; James 1:19
- anger
- Genesis 4:5, 6, 8; Genesis 34:7, 8, 25, 26, 30, 31; 2 Samuel 13:22, 28, 32; Proverbs 26:23–26; Mark 6:19, 24