# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 82: Dan 4

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/82 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**82:1** Understand ye therefore the might of wrath, that it is vain.

**82:2** For it first of all stingeth him in word: then by deeds it strengtheneth him who is angry, and with bitter punishments disturbeth his mind, and so stirreth up with great wrath his soul.

**82:3** Therefore, when any one speaketh against you, be not ye moved unto anger.

**82:4** And if any man praiseth you as good, be not lifted up nor elated, either to the feeling or showing of pleasure.

**82:5** For first it pleaseth the hearing, and so stirreth up the understanding to understand the grounds for anger; and then, being wrathful, he thinketh that he is justly angry.

**82:6** If ye fall into any loss or ruin, my children, be not troubled; for this very spirit maketh men desire that which hath perished, in order that they may be inflamed by the desire.

**82:7** If ye suffer loss willingly, be not vexed, for from vexation he raiseth up wrath with lying.

**82:8** And wrath with lying is a twofold mischief; and they speak one with another that they may disturb the mind; and when the soul is continually disturbed, the Lord departeth from it, and Beliar ruleth over it.

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