<p class="poetry">The one who is slow to anger has great understanding,p> <p class="poetry">but the one who has a quick temper<n id="1" /> exalts<n id="2" /> folly.p>

<p class="poetry">A gentle response<n id="1" /> turns away anger,p> <p class="poetry">but a harsh word<n id="2" /> stirs up wrath.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">A quick-tempered person<n id="1" /> stirs up dissension,p> <p class="poetry">but one who is slow to anger<n id="2" /> calms<n id="3" /> a quarrel.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Better to be slow to anger<n id="1" /> than to be a mighty warrior,p> <p class="poetry">and one who controls his temper<n id="2" /> is better than<n id="3" /> one who captures a city.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">A person&#8217;s wisdom<n id="1" /> makes him slow to anger,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and it is his glory<n id="3" /> to overlook<n id="4" /> an offense.p>

<p class="poetry">A gift given<n id="1" /> in secret subdues<n id="2" /> anger,p> <p class="poetry">and a bribe given secretly<n id="3" /> subdues<n id="4" /> strong wrath.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">lest the <sc>Lordsc> see it, and be displeased,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and turn his wrath away from him.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Through patience<n id="1" /> a ruler can be persuaded,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and a soft tongue<n id="3" /> can break a bone.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but who can stand before jealousy?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Scornful people<n id="1" /> inflame<n id="2" /> a city,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">but those who are wise turn away wrath.p>

<p class="poetry">An angry person<n id="1" /> stirs up dissension,p> <p class="poetry">and a wrathful person<n id="2" /> is abounding in transgression.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a cudgel with which I angrily punish.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I trampled nations in my anger,p> <p class="poetry">I made them drunk<n id="1" /> in my rage,p> <p class="poetry">I splashed their blood on the ground.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Correct us, <sc>Lordsc>, but only in due measure.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">by the fierce anger of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />p>

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life<n id="1" /> in its nostrils died.

<p class="poetry">Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce,p> <p class="poetry">and their fury, for it was cruel.p> <p class="poetry">I will divide them in Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">and scatter them in Israel!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">By the blast of your nostrils<n id="1" /> the waters were piled up,p> <p class="poetry">the flowing water stood upright like a heap,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the deep waters were solidified in the heart of the sea.p>

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.<n id="1" />p>

So now, leave me alone<n id="1" /> so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.&#8221;p>