Job 32:16

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.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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

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.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

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

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

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

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

Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

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.

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.

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

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

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.

“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

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.

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.

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.

But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.

Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

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

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

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.”

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

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

A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.

Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?” The common people heard him gladly.

They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.

When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.

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