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

By long forbearance a ruler is persuaded, And a gentle tongue breaks a bone.

An angry man stirs up strife, And a furious man abounds in transgression.

A wrathful man stirs up strife, But he who is slow to anger allays contention.

Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins.

He who is of a proud heart stirs up strife, But he who trusts in the Lord will be prospered.

Then the king answered the people roughly, and rejected the advice which the elders had given him;and he spoke to them according to the advice 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 scourges!”So the king did not listen to the people; for the turn of events was from the Lord, that He might fulfill His word, which the Lord had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.Now when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying:“ What share have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Now, see to your own house, O David!” So Israel departed to their tents.

Now the men of Ephraim said to him,“ Why have you done this to us by not calling us when you went to fight with the Midianites?” And they reprimanded him sharply.So he said to them,“ What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?God has delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. And what was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger toward him subsided when he said that.

Now David had said,“ Surely in vain I have protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belongs to him. And he has repaid me evil for good.May God do so, and more also, to the enemies of David, if I leave one male of all who belong to him by morning light.”Now when Abigail saw David, she dismounted quickly from the donkey, fell on her face before David, and bowed down to the ground.So she fell at his feet and said:“ On me, my Lord, on me let this iniquity be! And please let your maidservant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant.Please, let not my Lord regard this scoundrel Nabal. For as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him! But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my Lord whom you sent.Now therefore, my Lord, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, since the Lord has held you back from coming to bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now then, let your enemies and those who seek harm for my Lord be as Nabal.And now this present which your maidservant has brought to my Lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my Lord.Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant. For the Lord will certainly make for my Lord an enduring house, because my Lord fights the battles of the Lord, and evil is not found in you throughout your days.Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life, but the life of my Lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; and the lives of your enemies He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling.And it shall come to pass, when the Lord has done for my Lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you ruler over Israel,that this will be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my Lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my Lord has avenged himself. But when the Lord has dealt well with my Lord, then remember your maidservant.”Then David said to Abigail:“ Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!And blessed is your advice and blessed are you, because you have kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.

Then Nabal answered David’s servants, and said,“ Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who break away each one from his master.Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men when I do not know where they are from?”So David’s young men turned on their heels and went back; and they came and told him all these words.Then David said to his men,“ Every man gird on his sword.” So every man girded on his sword, and David also girded on his sword. And about four hundred men went with David, and two hundred stayed with the supplies.

So when I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hands and crossed over against the people of Ammon; and the Lord delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”Now Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because they said,“ You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites and among the Manassites.”The Gileadites seized the fords of the Jordan before the Ephraimites arrived. And when any Ephraimite who escaped said,“ Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead would say to him,“ Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said,“ No,”then they would say to him,“ Then say,‘ shibboleth’!” And he would say,“ Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they would take him and kill him at the fords of the Jordan. There fell at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites.

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said,“ We have ten shares in the king; therefore we also have more right to David than you. Why then do you despise us— were we not the first to advise bringing back our king?” Yet the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.