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Ecclesiastes 7:9
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
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Job 20:3
I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
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Job 13:19
Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
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Romans 10:2
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
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Psalms 31:22
I had said in my alarm,“ I am cut off from your sight.” But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.
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Mark 6:25
And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying,“ I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
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James 1:19
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
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Psalms 116:11
I said in my alarm,“ All mankind are liars.”
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Proverbs 14:29
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
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Proverbs 29:20
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
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Job 4:2
“ If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
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Job 32:13-20
Beware lest you say,‘ We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a man.’He has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches.“ They are dismayed; they answer no more; they have not a word to say.And shall I wait, because they do not speak, because they stand there, and answer no more?I also will answer with my share; I also will declare my opinion.For I am full of words; the spirit within me constrains me.Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins ready to burst.I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
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Jeremiah 20:9
If I say,“ I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
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Psalms 39:2-3
I was mute and silent; I held my peace to no avail, and my distress grew worse.My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue: