Ecclesiastes 7:8-10

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁸ Better is the end of a thing than its beginning;
    the patient in spirit are better than the proud in spirit.
⁹ Do not be quick to anger,
    for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
¹⁰ Do not say, ‘Why were the former days better than these?’
    For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.