Ecclesiastes 7:9-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.

¹⁰ Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.

¹¹ Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.