⁴ If the anger of the ruler rises against you, ^(A)do not leave your place,
    ^(B)for calmness^[a] will lay great offenses to rest.

¹⁹ By mere words a servant is not disciplined,
    for though he understands, he will not respond.

⁸ Like ^(A)a bird that strays from its nest
    is a man who strays from his home.

^17 (A)Better is a dinner of herbs where love is
    than ^(B)a fattened ox and hatred with it.
^18 (C)A hot-tempered man ^(D)stirs up strife,
    but he who is ^(E)slow to anger quiets contention.

15 ^(A)A soft answer turns away wrath,
    but ^(B)a harsh word stirs up anger.

²⁹ Whoever is ^(A)slow to anger has great understanding,
    but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

⁴¹ he ^(A)gave them into the hand of the nations,
    so that those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴² Their enemies ^(B)oppressed them,
    and they were brought into subjection under their power.