Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: the patient in spirit better than the proud in spirit.
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Context
6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so the laughter of the fool: this also vanity.
7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
8 Better the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: the patient in spirit better than the proud in spirit.
9 Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
10 Say not you, What is that the former days were better than these? for you dost not enquire wisely concerning this.