Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.
Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:
I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn;
To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.
You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but the kingdom?” And Saul eyed David from that day on.
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”
For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.
O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.
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