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Ecclesiastes 7:9
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.
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Job 20:3
I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.
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Job 13:19
Can anyone bring charges against me? If so, I will be silent and die.
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Romans 10:2
For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.
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Psalms 31:22
In my alarm I said,“ I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.
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Mark 6:25
At once the girl hurried in to the king with the request:“ I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
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James 1:19
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,
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Psalms 116:11
in my alarm I said,“ Everyone is a liar.”
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Proverbs 14:29
Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick- tempered displays folly.
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Proverbs 29:20
Do you see someone who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for them.
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Job 4:2
“ If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
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Job 32:13-20
Do not say,‘ We have found wisdom; let God, not a man, refute him.’But Job has not marshaled his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.“ They are dismayed and have no more to say; words have failed them.Must I wait, now that they are silent, now that they stand there with no reply?I too will have my say; I too will tell what I know.For I am full of words, and the spirit within me compels me;inside I am like bottled-up wine, like new wineskins ready to burst.I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and reply.
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Jeremiah 20:9
But if I say,“ I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.
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Psalms 39:2-3
So I remained utterly silent, not even saying anything good. But my anguish increased;my heart grew hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue: