Esther 5:10

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

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

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

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

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

He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”

Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”

She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, “Have all men leave me.” Then every man went out from him.

Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

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

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

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

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

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.

Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”

In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.

Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children here?” He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.

Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”

Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, “Don’t let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.

Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have been disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,

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

Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe. Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?

“ ‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.

Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake nor meet us.’

God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,

She went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”

The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”