Ecclesiastes 7:9

Don't be quick to anger, for anger lodges in the heart of fools. It matters because a hot temper marks folly, while restraint marks wisdom.

Cross-references · 19

• Jas 1:19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
• Prov 14:17He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.
• Prov 16:32One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
• Eph 4:26–27“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
• Prov 26:23–26Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
• 2 Sam 13:22Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
• Gen 34:7–8The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; a thing ought not to be done.
• Gen 34:30–31Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
• 2 Sam 19:43The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
• 1 Sam 25:21–22Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.
• Esth 3:5–6When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.
• Gen 4:5–6but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
• 2 Sam 13:28Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
• Gen 34:25–26On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
• Mark 6:19Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
• Mark 6:24She went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”
• Gen 4:8Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
• Jonah 4:9God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
• 2 Sam 13:32Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, “Don’t let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.

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