⁴ And the Lord said, ^(A)“Do you do well to be angry?”

^15 (A)Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or ^(B)do you begrudge my generosity?’^[a]

⁹ But God said to Jonah, ^(A)“Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”

Hearing and Doing the Word

^19 (A)Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person ^(B)be quick to hear, ^(C)slow to speak, ^(D)slow to anger; ²⁰ for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

¹¹ And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, ^(A)and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock. ¹² And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because ^(B)you did not believe in me, ^(C)to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”

^24 (A)“Let Aaron be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land that I have given to the people of Israel, because ^(B)you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.