Job 11:2

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

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

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

He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

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,

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

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

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

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

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

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

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

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

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

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

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

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

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man:

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.” Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.

This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you will not exalt them.

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

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