Ecclesiastes 10:6

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

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

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted.

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword at the king’s house.

The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

In every province, and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss.

When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”

He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction.”

He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

He was with her hidden in Yahweh’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,

and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.

Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his plan that he had planned against the Jews.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.

that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people.

The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.

Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

Then Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;

Then the princes said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.”

The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate.

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Seeing then that these things can’t be denied, you ought to be quiet and to do nothing rash.

(for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”