Ecclesiastes 7:9
What meaning of the ecclesiastes 7:9 in the Bible?
What does Ecclesiastes 7:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools."
What does Ecclesiastes 7:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools."
Verse Ecclesiastes 7:9. _ANGER RESTETH IN THE BOSOM OF FOOLS._] A wise man, off his guard, may feel it for a moment: but in him it cannot _rest_: it is a _fire_ which he immediately casts out of his b...
PART II. CHAPTER S 7-12 1. The Good Advice of the Natural Man, Discouragement and Failure CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The better things (Ecclesiastes 7:1)_ 2. The anomalies (Ecclesiastes 7:15) 3. The strength...
PROVERBS AND REFLECTIONS. After asking, What is good for man in life? (Ecclesiastes 6:12), Qoheleth gives us advice as to what a man may do by way of mitigating his worries. First of all it is advisab...
_Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry_ From sins of speech in general, the teacher passes on to that which is the source from which they most often flow. Anger, alike from the Stoic and Epicurean st...
TO BE ANGRY;—FOR ANGER— _To grieve; for grief,_ &c.] So our translators have rendered the original word, chap. Ecclesiastes 2:23. See also chap. Ecclesiastes 5:17 and Ecclesiastes 11:10; and, thus ren...
f. Patience is better than anxiety. Ecclesiastes 7:8-9 TEXT 7:8-9 8 The end of a matter is better than its beginning; patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit. 9 Do not be eager in...
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. BE NOT HASTY - passionate with excitement, bursting out in complaints against God, and impatient at adversity befal...
PRACTICAL APHORISMS 1-6. Things useful to remember in life. The writer has just warned as that we cannot rely on either the present or the future. We can, however, guide ourselves in the conduct of l...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 7 The Teacher does not continue to ask questions. Instead, he uses many special sent...
RESTETH. — Proverbs 14:33....
אַל ־תְּבַהֵ֥ל בְּ רֽוּחֲךָ֖ לִ כְעֹ֑וס כִּ֣י כַ֔עַס בְּ חֵ֥יק כְּסִילִ֖ים יָנֽוּחַ׃...
THIRD SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 7:1, and Ecclesiastes 8:1 IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown that the Chief Good i...
The preacher now proceeded to the inculcation of indifference toward all the facts of life as the only attitude which is in the least likely to be satisfactory. This he did, first, by a series of maxi...
_Speech. Hebrew, "thing." The best projects often are seen to fail. --- Beginning, as the auditor is on longer kept in suspense. --- Presumptuous. Rashness must not be confounded with courage. (Calmet...
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. (8) Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. (9)...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 12. The Book of Ecclesiastes is, up to a certain point, the converse of the Book of Proverbs. (see NOTE TO PROVERBS below) It is the experience of a...
BE NOT HASTY IN THY SPIRIT TO BE ANGRY,.... With men, for every word that is said, or action done, that is not agreeable; encourage not, but repress, sudden angry emotions of the mind; be not quick of...
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Ver. 9. _Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry._] The hasty man, we say, never wants woe. For wrath is an evil counse...
_Better is the end of a thing than the beginning_ The good or evil of things is better known by their end than by their beginning; which is true, not only respecting evil counsels and practices, which...
CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD AND THE SPIRIT OF CALM RESIGNATION...
"DO NOT BE EAGER IN YOUR HEART TO BE ANGRY, FOR ANGER RESIDES IN THE BOSOM OF FOOLS."EAGER IN YOUR HEART" -quick to be angry. The idea is that of hastening, in. hurry to be angry. When our attitude is...
7-10 The event of our trials and difficulties is often better than at first we thought. Surely it is better to be patient in spirit, than to be proud and hasty. Be not soon angry, nor quick in resenti...
Be not angry with any man without due consideration, and just and necessary cause; for otherwise anger is sometimes lawful, and sometimes a duty. RESTETH; hath its settled and quiet abode, is their co...
Ecclesiastes 7:9 hasten H926 (H8762) spirit H7307 angry H3707 (H8800) anger H3708 rests H5117 (H8799) bosom H2436 fools H3684 hasty - 1 Samuel 25:21-22; 2 Samuel 19:43; Esther 3:5-6;...
CHAPTER 7 IT IS GOOD TO BE AWARE OF DEATH, TO LISTEN TO REBUKE, TO BEHAVE WISELY, EVEN THOUGH LIFE IS UNFAIR. BUT THE WORLD IS FULL OF WICKEDNESS. The emphasis of the book from now on includes the th...
Ecclesiastes 5:8-7 I. We left Koheleth in the act of exhorting us to fear God. The fear of God, of course, implies a belief in the Divine superintendence of human affairs. This belief Koheleth now pr...
CONTENTS: Prudence recommended as a means of avoiding much of the vanity and vexation of the world. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The best way to save ourselves from the vexation which the v...
Ecclesiastes 7:1. _A good name is better than precious ointment._ Shem, a name; shemen, ointment. The reference is to the embalming of bodies with ointment. See Genesis 48. Wisdom and virtue outlive t...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 7:11. WISDOM IS GOOD WITH AN INHERITANCE] Wisdom, though good in itself, yet when joined with ample means imparts a power of doing good to others. ECCLESIASTES 7:12. WI...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 7:1 Ecclesiastes 12:8.—Division II. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED EXPERIENCES IN THE WAY OF WARNINGS AND RULES OF LIFE. ECCLESIASTES 7:1 Section 1. Though no man knows...
Tonight we want to return again to the book of Ecclesiastes beginning with chapter 7. And as we return to the book of Ecclesiastes, again, it is important that we make note of the fact that the book o...
1 Samuel 25:21; 1 Samuel 25:22; 2 Samuel 13:22; 2 Samuel 13:28; 2 Samuel 13:32; 2 Samuel 19:43; Ephesians 4:26; Ephesians 4:27; Esther 3:5;...