rsv Ecclesiastes:7:9-14
rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:9 @ Be not quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:10 @ Say not, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:11 @ Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:12 @ For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money; and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:13 @ Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked?
rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:14 @ In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.