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

When a fool is annoyed, he quickly lets it be known. Smart people will ignore an insult.

Hot tempers cause arguments, but patience brings peace.

It is better to be patient than powerful. It is better to win control over yourself than over whole cities.

Don't make friends with people who have hot, violent tempers.

People with quick tempers cause a lot of quarreling and trouble.

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

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

(SEE 6:16)

The LORD is pleased with good people, but condemns those who plan evil.

and when he learned that Mordecai was a Jew, he decided to do more than punish Mordecai alone. He made plans to kill every Jew in the whole Persian Empire.

Then King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, "Who dares to do such a thing? Where is this man?"

Esther answered, "Our enemy, our persecutor, is this evil man Haman!" Haman faced the king and queen with terror.

A stupid person is evil and does evil things; he plots to ruin the poor with lies and to keep them from getting their rights.

"Evildoers live among my people; they lie in wait like those who lay nets to catch birds, but they have set their traps to catch people.

why they are fat and well fed. There is no limit to their evil deeds. They do not give orphans their rights or show justice to the oppressed.