7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• Eccl 7:9 — Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
• Eccl 7:9 — Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
• Eph 4:31 — Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• Esth 3:6 — And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus,
• Esth 7:5 — Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
• Isa 32:7 — The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
• Jas 1:19 — Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Jas 1:19 — Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Jer 5:26 — For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
• Prov 6:18 — An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
• Prov 12:2 — A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
• Prov 12:16 — A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
• Prov 14:29 — He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
• Prov 14:29 — He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
• Prov 15:18 — A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
• Prov 16:32 — He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
• Prov 20:3 — It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
• Prov 22:24 — Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
• Prov 29:22 — An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
• Prov 29:22 — An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
• Titus 1:7 — For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;