Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
If we assay to commune with you, will you be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
See you a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
And she came in straightway with haste to the king, and asked, saying, I will that you give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: