Ecclesiastes 7:5-12

⁵Anger is better then laughter: for by a sad looke the heart is made better.

⁶The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.

⁷Better it is to heare ye rebuke of a wise man, then that a man should heare the song of fooles.

⁸For like ye noyse of the thornes vnder the pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.

⁹Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad: and the rewarde destroyeth the heart.

¹⁰The ende of a thing is better then the beginning thereof, and the pacient in spirit is better then the proude in spirit.

¹¹Be not thou of an hastie spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.

¹²Say not thou, Why is it that the former dayes were better then these? for thou doest not enquire wisely of this thing.