¹⁷ He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

²⁹ He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.

²² An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.

¹⁹ You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

⁹ Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

³² 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.

¹⁸ An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.

²⁶ For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

²⁷ As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

²⁸ They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

²⁹ Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

⁷ The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.

²⁴ Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:

¹⁶ A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.

² A good man has grace in the eyes of the Lord; but the man of evil designs gets punishment from him.

¹⁸ A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

⁵ Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, Who is he and where is he who has had this evil thought in his heart?

⁶ And Esther said, Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman. Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.

⁶ But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.