²² An angry person starts fights;
    a hot-tempered person commits all kinds of sin.

¹⁸ A hot-tempered person starts fights;
    a cool-tempered person stops them.

¹⁹ Anyone who loves to quarrel loves sin;
    anyone who trusts in high walls invites disaster.

²¹ A quarrelsome person starts fights
    as easily as hot embers light charcoal or fire lights wood.

¹² Hatred stirs up quarrels,
    but love makes up for all offenses.

²⁴ Don’t befriend angry people
    or associate with hot-tempered people,

¹⁷ Short-tempered people do foolish things,
    and schemers are hated.

³³ As the beating of cream yields butter
    and striking the nose causes bleeding,
    so stirring up anger causes quarrels.