my thoughts

Job 20:3
I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding makes me reply.

Job 4:2
"If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

Job 13:19
Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.

Job 32:13-20
So do not claim, 'We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.' . . .

Psalm 39:2, 3
I was speechless and still; I held my peace, even from good, and my sorrow was stirred. . . .

Jeremiah 20:9
If I say, "I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name, " His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

Romans 10:2
For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.

and for

Psalm 31:22
In my alarm I said, "I am cut off from Your sight!" But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.

Psalm 116:11
In my alarm I said, "All men are liars!"

Proverbs 14:29
A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.

Proverbs 29:20
Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Ecclesiastes 7:9
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.

Mark 6:25
At once the girl hurried back to the king with her request: "I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately."

James 1:19
My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

I make haste.