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⁷ Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves.

¹ By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.

² Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.

¹⁷ The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish.

⁸ For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:

⁹ Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:

¹⁰ Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;