Proverbs 30:33
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 30:33For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”
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One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.
but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”
The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.
An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
For bronze I will bring gold; for iron I will bring silver; for wood, bronze, and for stones, iron. I will also make peace your governor, and righteousness your ruler.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council,
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’ ” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.
David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’
Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.
Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.
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.
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.
Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.
The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.
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.
“But out of a shoot from her roots one will stand up in his place, who will come to the army, and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will deal against them, and will prevail.
“Then one who will cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory will stand up in his place; but within few days he shall be destroyed, not in anger, and not in battle.
“In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.