Strive not with a man without cause, If he have not done thee evil.
Thou hast certainly smitten Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up; be honoured, and abide in thy house; and why dost thou stir thyself up in evil, that thou hast fallen, thou, and Judah with thee?'
The beginning of contention `is' a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.
Laying hold on the ears of a dog, `Is' a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.
An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.
and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,