I will hear my shameful reproach, and the spirit of my understanding answers me.

Have you been often spoken to in distress? But who shall endure the force of your words?

For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire?

lest you should say, We have found that we have added wisdom to the Lord.

They were afraid, they answered no longer; they gave up their speaking.

And Elihu continued, and said, I will again speak,

And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine, bound up and ready to burst; or as a brazier's laboring bellows.

I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good [words]; and my grief was renewed.

My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation; I spoke with my tongue,

Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no longer speak in His name. But it was a burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and cannot bear [up].

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of Your eyes; therefore You listened, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to You.

And I said in my amazement, Every man is a liar.

A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom, but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish.

If you see a man hasty in his words, know that the fool has hope rather than he.

Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry; for anger will rest in the bosom of fools.

Immediately she came in with haste to the king and she requested, saying, "I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter."

So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;