Into your hand hath God given the heads of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what have I been able to do like you?' Then their temper desisted from off him in his speaking this thing.

I -- to man is my complaint? and if so, wherefore May not my temper become short?

for they aroused his temper, and he spoke rashly.

Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

Whoso is slow to anger is of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.

The quickly angered man stirs up contention, but anyone who controls his temper calms a dispute.

Whoever controls his temper is better than a warrior, and anyone who has control of his spirit is better than someone who captures a city.

One acquainted with knowledge is sparing his words, And the cool of temper is a man of understanding.

Like a city that is broken down and without a wall, so is a person who cannot control his temper.

A fool always loses his temper,
But a wise man holds it back.

If the ruler’s temper rises against you, do not abandon your position, because composure allays great offenses.

And a present thou dost make for it morning by morning, a sixth part of the ephah, and of oil a third part of the hin, to temper with the fine flour, a present to Jehovah, by a statute age-during -- continually;

Draw water now against thou be besieged, make up thy strongholds, go into the clay, temper the mortar, make strong brick: