Wisdom Principles: Do Not Mock Another’s Misfortune

Exodus 23:4-5

If you come on your enemy's ox or donkey straying, you will take it back to him. 5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under its load, do not stand back; you must go and help him with it.

Job 31:29

Have I rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune, or exulted when disaster overtook him?

Proverbs 17:5

No one who laughs at distress will go unpunished.

Proverbs 24:17-18

Should your enemy fall, do not rejoice, when he stumbles do not let your heart exult: 18 for fear that Yahweh will be displeased at the sight and turn his anger away from him.

Sirach 11:4

Do not mock the one who wears only a loin-cloth, or scoff at a person’s bitter day.

Ezekiel 35:15

Since you rejoiced because the heritage of the House of Israel had been laid waste, I shall do the same to you, Mount Seir; and you will become a waste, and so will the whole of Edom

Obadiah 12
Do not feast your eyes on your brother on the day of his misfortune. Do not gloat over the children of Judah on the day of their ruin. Do not play the braggart on the day of distress.

Wisdom Principles: Avoid Crassness, Crudity, in Communication

Sirach 5:14

Do not get a name for scandal-mongering 

Sirach 18:18

A fool will offer nothing but insult

Sirach 21:20

A fool laughs at the top of his voice, but the intelligent quietly smiles.

Sirach 23:13

Do not get into the habit of using coarse and foul language

Sirach 23:15

No one in the habit of using shameful language will break himself of it as long as he lives

Sirach 27:13-14

The conversation of fools is disgusting, raucous their laughter in their sinful pleasures.14 The talk of hard-swearing people makes your hair stand on end, their brawling makes you stop your ears.

Ephesians 4:29
No foul word should ever cross your lips

Ephesians 5:4
There must be no foul or salacious talk or coarse jokes

Wisdom Principles: Communicate Calmly

Proverbs 12:18

The tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 15:1

A mild answer turns away wrath, sharp words stir up anger.

Proverbs 15:4

The tongue that soothes is a tree of life; the perverse tongue, a breaker of hearts.

Proverbs 16:24

Kindly words are a honeycomb, sweet to the taste

Proverbs 17:27

Someone of understanding keeps a cool temper.

Proverbs 25:15

With patience a judge may be cajoled: a soft tongue breaks bones.

Ecclesiastes 10:12
Words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious, while the lips of a fool consume him

Sirach 5:14

Do not get a name for scandal-mongering

Sirach 18:18

A fool will offer nothing but insult

Sirach 21:20

A fool laughs at the top of his voice, but the intelligent quietly smiles.

Sirach 27:14

The talk of hard-swearing people makes your hair stand on end, their brawling makes you stop your ears.

James 1:19

Remember this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to listen but slow to speak and slow to human anger

James 1:20

God's saving justice is never served by human anger

1 Peter 3:16

But give it with courtesy and respect and with a clear conscience