A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger.

回答柔和，使怒消退；言语暴戾，触动怒气。

回答柔和，使怒消退；言语粗暴，触动怒气。

回答柔和，使怒消退；言语粗暴，触动怒气。

温和的回答平息怒气，粗暴的言词激起愤怒。

柔和的回答使烈怒消退，暴戾的话激动怒气。

温和的回答，使怒火消退；尖刻的话语，会激起怒气。

回答柔和，使怒消退；言語暴戾，觸動怒氣。

回答柔和，使怒消退；言語粗暴，觸動怒氣。

回答柔和，使怒消退；言語粗暴，觸動怒氣。

溫和的回答平息怒氣，粗暴的言詞激起憤怒。

柔和的回答使烈怒消退，暴戾的話激動怒氣。

柔和的回答使烈怒消退；傷人的話語能激起忿怒。

溫和的回答，使怒火消退；尖刻的話語，會激起怒氣。

溫和之應對息忿、暴厲之言詞激怒、

其言也溫、可以息怒、其辭也厲、足以激變。

答言溫和則息怒、語言暴戾則激怒、

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

A gentle answer turns anger away. But mean words stir up anger.

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare.

A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.

A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.

A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

A gentle response turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.

A wrathful man stirreth up contention; But he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.

He that is of a greedy spirit stirreth up strife; But he that putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be made fat.

And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was a thing brought about of Jehovah, that he might establish his word, which Jehovah spake by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.And when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.

And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with Midian? And they did chide with him sharply.And he said unto them, What have I now done in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?God hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison with you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.God do so unto the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light so much as one man- child.And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and alighted from her ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.And she fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me be the iniquity; and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear thou the words of thy handmaid.Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.Now therefore, my lord, as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing Jehovah hath withholden thee from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now therefore let thine enemies, and them that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.And now this present which thy servant hath brought unto my lord, let it be given unto the young men that follow my lord.Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid: for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battles of Jehovah; and evil shall not be found in thee all thy days.And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee prince over Israel,that this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord hath avenged himself. And when Jehovah shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.And David said to Abigail, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me:and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou, that hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now- a- days that break away every man from his master.Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men of whom I know not whence they are?So David’s young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage.

And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And it was so, that, when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.