OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 7:9

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Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

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Verse 9. Speech. Hebrew “thing.” The best projects often are seen to fail.—Beginning, as the auditor is on longer kept in suspense.—Presumptuous. Rashness must not be confounded with courage. Calmet.—Hasty and immoderate anger is hurtful. Worthington.

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