Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

"How long [till] you put an end to words? Gain understanding, and afterward we will speak.

Let not a slanderer be established in the earth; Let evil hunt the violent man to overthrow [him."]

In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, But he who restrains his lips [is] wise.

Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods," because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;