Job 20:2

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

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 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.

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

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

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

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

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.

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

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

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

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

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.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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.

Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

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

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

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

Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

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.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

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

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.

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

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

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

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

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.

Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

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.

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

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

I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

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

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

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

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

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