{He that is} slow to wrath {is} of great understanding: but {he that is} hasty of spirit exalteth folly. {hasty...: Heb. short of spirit}

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but {he that is} slow to anger appeaseth strife.

{He that is} slow to anger {is} better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

The instruments also of the churl {are} evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. {the needy...: or, he speaketh against the poor in judgment}

A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent {man} covereth shame. {presently: Heb. in that day}

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that {were} throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, {even} the people of Mordecai.

Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so? {that...: Heb. whose heart hath filled him}

A good {man} obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

For among my people are found wicked {men}: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. {they lay...: or, they pry as fowlers lie in wait}

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

{He that is} slow to wrath {is} of great understanding: but {he that is} hasty of spirit exalteth folly. {hasty...: Heb. short of spirit}

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

{It is} an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth {shall be} to them that devise good.

{Are} not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. {Abana: or, Amana}

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;