Ecclesiastes 7:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 7

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

⁸Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Ecclesiastes 7:8 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Ecclesiastes 7:7 Ecclesiastes 7:9 →

Original word meaning

— of 9

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 10:36
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Psalms 126:5-6
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. …
Proverbs 14:29
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
1 Peter 1:13
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
James 5:11
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

Topics

Anger Gentleness Graces Jesus, the Christ Longsuffering Meekness Patience Self-Control

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-10)

Solomon had often complained before of the oppressions which he saw under the sun, which gave occasion for many melancholy speculations and were a great discouragement to virtue and piety. Now here, I. He grants the temptation to be strong (Eccl. 7:7): Surely it is often too true that oppression makes a wise man mad. If a wise man be much and long oppressed, he is very apt to speak and act unlike…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. connected with Ec 7:7. Let the “wise” wait for “the end,” and the “oppressions” which now (in “the beginning”) perplex their faith, will be found by God’s working to be overruled to their good. “Tribulation worketh patience” (Ro 5:3), which is infinitely better than “the proud spirit” that prosperity might have generated in them, as it has in fools (Psa 73:2, 3, 12-14, 17-26; Jas 5:11).