Job 6:24

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

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

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

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.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

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.

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

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

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

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

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.

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.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

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.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

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.

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.

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

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

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

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.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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.

I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.

You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

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.

I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

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

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

“Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.

“However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

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 heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”

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.

I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

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