Ecclesiastes 7:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Proverbs 14:17
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
Ephesians 4:26-27
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: …
Proverbs 16:32
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Proverbs 26:23-26
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. …

Topics

Anger Fool Gentleness Graces 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. 9)

9. angry--impatient at adversity befalling thee, as Job was (Ec 5:2; Pr 12:16).