“Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 7 contains 29 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.