¹⁷ Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

²⁹ Whoso is slow to anger `is' of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.

²² An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

¹⁹ So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

⁹ Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

³² Better `is' the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.

¹⁸ A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.

²⁶ For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

²⁷ As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.

²⁸ They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

²⁹ For these do not I inspect, an affirmation of Jehovah, On a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?

⁷ And the miser -- his instruments `are' evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

²⁴ Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,

¹⁶ The fool -- in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.

² The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.

¹⁸ A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --

⁵ And the king Ahasuerus saith, yea, he saith to Esther the queen, `Who `is' he -- this one? and where `is' this one? -- he whose heart hath filled him to do so?'

⁶ And Esther saith, `The man -- adversary and enemy -- `is' this wicked Haman;' and Haman hath been afraid at the presence of the king and of the queen.

⁶ and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who `are' in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus -- the people of Mordecai.