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 Abednego. 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 Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

¹⁰ Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

²² But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell 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 children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.

⁵ The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with 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 furious man aboundeth in transgression.

³ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

⁴ Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

² The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

¹² The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour 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 wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.