32 (A)Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
    and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

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11 (A)Good sense makes one slow to anger,
    and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

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17 A man of (A)quick temper acts foolishly,
    and a man of evil devices is hated.

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(A)Be not quick in your spirit to become angry,
    (B)for anger lodges in the heart[a] of fools.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:9 Hebrew in the bosom

Hearing and Doing the Word

19 (A)Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person (B)be quick to hear, (C)slow to speak, (D)slow to anger;

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