Ecclesiastes 7:6-8

BRG Bible

⁶ For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

⁷ ¶ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

⁸ Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.