What you have said is an insult, but I know how to reply to you.

(SEE 4:1)

Are you coming to accuse me, God? If you do, I am ready to be silent and die.

How can you claim you have discovered wisdom? God must answer Job, for you have failed.

Words have failed them, Job; they have no answer for you.

No, I will give my own answer now and tell you what I think.

If I don't get a chance to speak, I will burst like a wineskin full of new wine.

I kept quiet, not saying a word, not even about anything good! But my suffering only grew worse,

and I was overcome with anxiety. The more I thought, the more troubled I became; I could not keep from asking:

But when I say, "I will forget the LORD and no longer speak in his name," then your message is like a fire burning deep within me. I try my best to hold it in, but can no longer keep it back.

I can assure you that they are deeply devoted to God; but their devotion is not based on true knowledge.

I was afraid and thought that he had driven me out of his presence. But he heard my cry, when I called to him for help.

even when I was afraid and said, "No one can be trusted."

If you stay calm, you are wise, but if you have a hot temper, you only show how stupid you are.

There is more hope for a stupid fool than for someone who speaks without thinking.

Keep your temper under control; it is foolish to harbor a grudge.

The girl hurried back at once to the king and demanded, "I want you to give me here and now the head of John the Baptist on a plate!"

Remember this, my dear friends! Everyone must be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to become angry.