This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer, because I am upset!
A patient person shows great understanding, but a quick-tempered one promotes foolishness.
My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
I can testify about them that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
At once she hurried to the king and said, ‘I want you to give me John the Baptist’s head on a dish immediately.’
I say, ‘I won’t mention him or speak any longer in his name.’ But his message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones. I become tired of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
Don’t let your spirit rush to be angry, for anger abides in the heart of fools.
Do you see someone who speaks too soon? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding makes me reply.
Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: