Ecclesiastes 7:9
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.
Webster's Revision
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
World English Bible
Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Clarke's Ecclesiastes 7:9 Bible Commentary
Anger resteth in the bosom of fools - A wise man, off his guard, may feel it for a moment: but in him it cannot rest: it is a fire which he immediately casts out of his breast. But the fool - the man who is under the dominion of his own tempers, harbors and fosters it, till it takes the form of malice, and then excites him to seek full revenge on those whom he deems enemies. Hence that class of dangerous and empty fools called duellists.
