Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
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 unto you.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
And she came in immediately with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that you give me at once on a platter the head of John the Baptist.
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 from holding it back, and I could not.
Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
See you a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope for a fool than for him.
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
I have heard the rebuke of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
Who is he that will contend with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall die.
If we venture to converse with you, will you be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,