“Listen! My thoughts urge me to answer because of the agitation within me.
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
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.
You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,
For I can testify that they have a zeal for God, but it is not based on knowledge.
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.”
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.
Do not be quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
Do you see someone who is hasty in speech? There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that.
I said in my consternation, “Everyone is a liar.”
I hear censure that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.
Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking?
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered: