anger is after all
only an emotion
that is neutral in itself

we can sin while we are angry
as we can sin while we are sad
or even when we are happy

maybe we just noticed
that we only sin more
when we are angry
for anger is a powerful emotion
that can overpower us
if we do not know
for why
or how
we should express it

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Why won't God give me what I ask? Why won't he answer my prayer? - Job 6:8 TEV

In trouble like this I need loyal friends. - Job 6:14 TEV

You have gone far enough. Stop being unjust. Don't condemn me. I'm in the right. - Job 6:29 TEV

Month after month I have nothing to live for; night after night brings me grief. - Job 7:3 Job TEV

My days pass by without hope... - Job 7:6 TEV

No! I can't be quiet! I am angry and bitter. I have to speak. - Job 7:11 TEV

After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not speak the truth about me, the way my servant Job did..." - Job 42:7 TEV

...the Lord made him prosperous once again and gave him twice as much as he had had before. - Job 42:10 TEV

The Lord blessed the last part of Job's life even more than he had blessed the first. - Job 42:12 TEV

In the past I knew only what others had told me, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.- Job 42:5 TEV

I am surrounded by enemies, who are like lions hungry for human flesh. Their teeth are like spears and arrows; their toungues are like sharp swords. - Psalms 57:4 TEV

My former companion attacked his friends; he broke his promises. His words were smoother than cream, but there was hatred in his heart; his words were as soothing as oil, but they cut like sharp swords. - PSALMS 55:20-21 TEV

Hear my prayer, O God; don't turn away from my plea! Listen to me and answer me; I am worn out by my worries. - PSALMS 55:1-2 TEV

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I had hoped for sympathy, but there was none; for comfort, but I found none. - PSALMS 69:19-20 TEV

I wish I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and find rest. I would fly far away and make my home in the desert. I would hurry and find myself a shelter from the raging wind and the storm. - PSALMS 55:6-8 TEV

But I call to the Lord for help, and he will save me. morning, noon and night my complaints and groans go up to him, and he will hear my voice. - PSALMS 55:16-17 TEV

You know how troubled I am; you have kept a record of my tears. - PSALMS 56:8 TEV

Love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will embrace. - PSALMS 85:10 TEV

God, who lives in his sacred Temple, cares for orphans and protects widows. He gives the lonely a home to live in and leads prisoners out into happy freedom... - PSALMS 68:5-6 TEV

Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. - PSALMS 126:5 NIV

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. - PSALMS 34:18-19 NIV

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. - PSALMS 143:8 NIV

All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. - JOHN 6:37 NIV

Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. - JOHN 16:22 NIV

Jesus saw her weeping, and he saw how the people with her were weeping also; his heart was touched, and he was deeply moved... Jesus wept. - JOHN 11:33,35 TEV

When the Lord saw her, his heart was filled with pity for her, and he said to her, "Don't cry." - LUKE 7:13 TEV

He was still a long way from home when his father saw him; his heart was filled with pity, and he ran, threw his arms around his son, and kissed him. - LUKE 15:20 TEV

I have not come to call respectable people, but outcasts. MATTHEW 8:13 TEV

WISDOM

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.
-JAMES 3:17 (niv)

Wisdom is better than weapons of war... - Ecc. 10:19 NIV

Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance. - Ecc. 8:1 NIV

Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise - why destroy yourself? Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool - why die before your time? It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. The man who fears God will avoid all extremes. - Ecc. 7:16-18 NIV

Sow your seed in the morning, and at the evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well. - Ecc. 11:6 NIV

If a ruler's anger rises against you, do not leave yor post; calmness can lay great errors to rest. - Ecc. 10:6 NIV

But if any of you lack wisdom, you should pray to God who will give it to you; because God gives generously and graciously to all. But when you pray, you must believe and not doubt at all. Whoever doubts is like a wave in the sea that is driven and blown about by the wind. If you are like that, unable to make up your mind and undecided in all you do, you must not think that you will receive anything from the Lord.
-JAMES 1:5-8(tev)

The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. - Ecc. 9:11 NIV

Sorrow is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. - Ecc. 7:3 NIV

He has also set eternity in the hearts of men... Ecc. 3:11 NIV

INSPIRATION

Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun. However many years a man may live, let him enjoy them all. - Ecc. 11:7-8 NIV

Moreover, when God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accepths lot and be happy in his work - this is a gift of God. - Ecc. 5:19 NIV

He has made everything beautiful in his time. - Ecc. 3:11 NIV

I will send victory from the sky like rain; the earth will open to receive it and will blossom with freedom and justice. - Isaiah 45:8 TEV

...ask and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete. - John 16:24 TEV

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