Ecclesiastes 7:9

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Summary

Ecclesiastes 7:9

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

Hasty

Anger

Mark 6:19

Bible References

Hasty

Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good.

And in answer to the men of Judah, the men of Israel said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are the first in order of birth: why did you make nothing of us? and were we not the first to make suggestions for getting the king back? And the words of the men of Judah were more violent than the words of the men of Israel.

And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not go down before him and give him honour, Haman was full of wrath.

He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.

And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.

Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;

You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

Anger

But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.

Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.

But Absalom said nothing to his brother Amnon, good or bad: for he was full of hate for him, because he had taken his sister Tamar by force.

Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.

And Herodias was bitter against him, desiring to put him to death; but she was not able;