Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
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Gill's Exposition
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof,.... If the thing is good, other ways the end of it is worse; as the end of wickedness and wicked men, whose beginning is sweet, but the end…
Barnes' Notes
Better - Inasmuch as something certain is attained, man contemplates the end throughout an entire course of action, and does not rest upon the beginning. Patient ... proud - literally, “Long,”…
Solomon had often complained before of the oppressions which he saw under the sun, which gave occasion for many melancholy speculations and were a great discouragement to virtue and piety. Now…
Cambridge Bible
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof As in ch. Ecc 6:11, the noun translated "thing" may mean "word" and this gives a preferable meaning. It cannot be said of everything, good and…
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