Ecclesiastes 8:3

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.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

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.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

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

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

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

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

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

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.

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”

Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”

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

He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

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.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

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

for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.

Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,

A mighty king will stand up, who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”

He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”

Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.

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

The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

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

the greyhound; the male goat; and the king against whom there is no rising up.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”

it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

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.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?