Job 16:2

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

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

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.

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.

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

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

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

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

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

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.

I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me.

Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

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.

The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

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

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

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.

These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

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

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

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

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

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

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.

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn you? Who will come to ask of your welfare?

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

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.

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.

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.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

It came to pass, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, “Is that your voice, my son David?” Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

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.”

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

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