3 Better [is] sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the  face the heart becometh better.
         
                                
                        4 The heart of the wise [is] in a house of mourning, And the  heart of fools in a house of mirth.
         
                                
                        5 Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than [for] a man to  hear a song of fools,
         
                                
                        6 For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So [is] the  laughter of a fool, even this [is] vanity.
         
                                
                        7 Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth  the heart.
         
                                
                        8 Better [is] the latter end of a thing than its beginning,  Better [is] the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.
         
                                
                        9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the  bosom of fools resteth.