*Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my shalom and give up the spirit.
Then Tzofar the Na`amatite answered,
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
*If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
I said in my haste, *All men are liars.*
As for me, I said in my haste, *I am cut off from before your eyes.* Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].
She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, *I want you to give me right now the head of Yochanan the immerser on a platter.*
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;