¹² For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

¹³ Then Nebuchadnezzar in `his' rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king.

¹⁹ Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: `therefore' he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

¹⁰ Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee.

²² but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.

⁵ The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye make not known unto me the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

²² An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.

³ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool's vexation is heavier than they both.

⁴ Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

² The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth `against' his own life.

¹² The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as dew upon the grass.

¹⁴ The wrath of a king is `as' messengers of death; But a wise man will pacify it.

² For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.