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

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. (niv)

An angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered person commits many sins. (niv)

A hot- tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel. (niv)

Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. (niv)

The greedy stir up conflict, but those who trust in the Lord will prosper. (niv)

The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders,he followed the advice of the young men and said,“ My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the Lord, to fulfill the word the Lord had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king:“ What share do we have in David, what part in Jesse’s son? To your tents, Israel! Look after your own house, David!” So the Israelites went home. (niv)

Now the Ephraimites asked Gideon,“ Why have you treated us like this? Why didn’t you call us when you went to fight Midian?” And they challenged him vigorously.But he answered them,“ What have I accomplished compared to you? Aren’t the gleanings of Ephraim’s grapes better than the full grape harvest of Abiezer?God gave Oreb and Zeeb, the Midianite leaders, into your hands. What was I able to do compared to you?” At this, their resentment against him subsided. (niv)

David had just said,“ It’s been useless— all my watching over this fellow’s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good.May God deal with David, be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!”When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground.She fell at his feet and said:“ Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say.Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name— his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent.And now, my lord, as surely as the Lord your God lives and as you live, since the Lord has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal.And let this gift, which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.“ Please forgive your servant’s presumption. The Lord your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the Lord’s battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live.Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.When the Lord has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel,my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord your God has brought my lord success, remember your servant.”David said to Abigail,“ Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. (niv)

Nabal answered David’s servants,“ Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days.Why should I take my bread and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?”David’s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word.David said to his men,“ Each of you strap on your sword!” So they did, and David strapped his on as well. About four hundred men went up with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies. (niv)

When I saw that you wouldn’t help, I took my life in my hands and crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the Lord gave me the victory over them. Now why have you come up today to fight me?”Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said,“ You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.”The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said,“ Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked him,“ Are you an Ephraimite?” If he replied,“ No,”they said,“ All right, say‘ Shibboleth.’” If he said,“ Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time. (niv)

Then the men of Israel answered the men of Judah,“ We have ten shares in the king; so we have a greater claim on David than you have. Why then do you treat us with contempt? Weren’t we the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the men of Judah pressed their claims even more forcefully than the men of Israel. (niv)