Better is the end of a thing than its beginning,
    and (A)the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
(B)Be not quick in your spirit to become angry,
    (C)for anger lodges in the heart[a] of fools.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:9 Hebrew in the bosom

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