32 Patience is better than power,
and controlling one’s temper,[a] than capturing a city.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:32 Lit and ruling over one’s spirit

32 He who is slow to anger[a] is better than him who is mighty,
    and he who controls his spirit than him who captures a city.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:32 Literally “nostrils”