³⁶ Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. “What is my crime?” he asked Laban. “How have I wronged^(A) you that you hunt me down?^(B)

²⁶ “In your anger do not sin”^[a]:^(A) Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,

Listening and Doing

¹⁹ My dear brothers and sisters,^(A) take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak^(B) and slow to become angry, ²⁰ because human anger^(C) does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

⁵ He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.

¹⁹ The man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram and completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only three times.”^(A)

¹¹ But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand^(A) over the spot and cure me of my leprosy.

¹⁵ Then Moses became very angry^(A) and said to the Lord, “Do not accept their offering. I have not taken so much as a donkey^(B) from them, nor have I wronged any of them.”

⁷ Meanwhile, Jacob’s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked^(A) and furious,^(B) because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in^[a] Israel^(C) by sleeping with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.^(D)