The one who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.

A gentle response turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.

A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.

Better to be slow to anger than to be a mighty warrior, and one who controls his temper is better than one who captures a city.

A person’s wisdom makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

A gift given in secret subdues anger, and a bribe given secretly subdues strong wrath.

lest the Lord see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a soft tongue can break a bone.

Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Scornful people inflame a city, but those who are wise turn away wrath.

An angry person stirs up dissension, and a wrathful person is abounding in transgression.

Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.

I trampled nations in my anger, I made them drunk in my rage, I splashed their blood on the ground.”

Correct us, Lord, but only in due measure. Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.

Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste by the fierce anger of the Lord.

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel!

By the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing water stood upright like a heap, and the deep waters were solidified in the heart of the sea.

and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”