Ecclesiastes 7:3-13

³Better is sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.

⁴The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.

⁵Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than for a man to hear a song of fools,

⁶For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So is the laughter of a fool, even this is vanity.

⁷Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart.

⁸Better is the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better is the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.

⁹Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

¹⁰Say not thou, 'What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.

¹¹Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And an advantage it is to those beholding the sun.

¹²For wisdom is a defense, money is a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom is, She reviveth her possessors.

¹³See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?