For like the noise of the [a]thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

Surely oppression maketh a wise man [b]mad: and the reward destroyeth the heart.

10 The [c]end of a thing is better than the beginning thereof, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:8 Which crackle for a while and profit nothing.
  2. Ecclesiastes 7:9 A man that is esteemed wise, when he falleth to oppression, becometh like a beast.
  3. Ecclesiastes 7:10 He noteth their lightness which enterprise a thing and suddenly leave it off again.

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