Job 4:2, 7:11, Pro 10:19, Jam 1:19 | ESV | STEP | If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient ? Yet who can keep from speaking ?

b ch. 21:4; Ps. 77:3

c ch. 10:1; 21:25; 1 Sam. 1:10; Isa. 38:15; [ch. 3:20]

d[Matt. 12:36, 37]

e ch. 17:27; [James 3:2]

g[Eccles. 5:1, 2]

h Prov. 10:19; 17:27

iSee Prov. 14:29

Job 4:2

2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
Yet who can keep from speaking?

Job 7:11

11 “Therefore I will not ^arestrain my mouth;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will ^bcomplain in ^cthe bitterness of my soul.

Proverbs 10:19

19 ^dWhen words are many, transgression is not lacking,
^ebut whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

James 1:19

Hearing and Doing the Word

19 ^fKnow this, my beloved brothers: let every person ^gbe quick to hear, ^hslow to speak, ⁱslow to anger;

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