“Pay attention! My thoughts urge me to answer, because of the agitation within me.
Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
I hear censure that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking?
I said in my consternation, “Everyone is a liar.”
I had said in my alarm, “I am driven far from your sight.” But you heard my supplications when I cried out to you for help.
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Do you see someone who is hasty in speech? There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that.
Do not be quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
Immediately she rushed back to the king and requested, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
I can testify that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened.
You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger;