Job 5:2
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For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
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Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
A fool’s anger is known at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove— calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.