¹⁷ One who is quick-tempered acts foolishly,
    and the schemer is hated.^(A)

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

²² One given to anger stirs up strife,
    and the hothead causes much transgression.^(A)

⁹ Do not be quick to anger,
    for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.^(A)

³² One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
    and one whose temper is controlled than one who captures a city.^(A)

¹⁸ Those who are hot-tempered stir up strife,
    but those who are slow to anger calm contention.^(A)

²⁶ For the wicked are found among my people.
    They lie in wait like hunters;
destroyers,^[a] they catch humans.^(A)
27 Like a cage full of birds,
    their houses are full of treachery;
therefore they have become great and rich;^(B)
28     they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no limits in deeds of wickedness;
    they do not judge with justice
the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper,
    and they do not defend the rights of the needy.^(C)
29 Shall I not punish them for these things?
            says the Lord,
    and shall I not bring retribution
    on a nation such as this?^(D)

⁷ The villainies of villains are evil;
    they devise wicked devices
to ruin the poor with lying words,
    even when the plea of the needy is right.^(A)