Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
Who is he that will contend with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall die.
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
I have heard the rebuke of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
If we venture to converse 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 unto 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 for a fool than for 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 from holding it back, and I could not.
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.
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger: