A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.
My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’
At once the girl hurried back to the king with her request: “I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.