Ecclesiastes 7:9

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

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WEBBE

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

BSB

Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.

KJV

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

ASV

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

BBE

Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.