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16 A fool shows his annoyance the same day,
    but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

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16 A fool is quick-tempered,
    but a wise person stays calm when insulted.

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16 A wise man fears and shuns evil,
    but the fool is hot headed and reckless.
17 He who is quick to become angry will commit folly,
    and a crafty man is hated.

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16 The wise are cautious[a] and avoid danger;
    fools plunge ahead with reckless confidence.

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

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Footnotes

  1. 14:16 Hebrew The wise fear.

29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding,
    but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

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29 People with understanding control their anger;
    a hot temper shows great foolishness.

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18 A wrathful man stirs up contention,
    but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

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

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32 One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty;
    one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

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32 Better to be patient than powerful;
    better to have self-control than to conquer a city.

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11 The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger.
    It is his glory to overlook an offense.

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11 Sensible people control their temper;
    they earn respect by overlooking wrongs.

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19 A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty,
    for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

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19 Hot-tempered people must pay the penalty.
    If you rescue them once, you will have to do it again.

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24 Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man,
    and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
25 lest you learn his ways,
    and ensnare your soul.

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24 Don’t befriend angry people
    or associate with hot-tempered people,
25 or you will learn to be like them
    and endanger your soul.

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Mockers stir up a city,
    but wise men turn away anger.

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Mockers can get a whole town agitated,
    but the wise will calm anger.

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22 An angry man stirs up strife,
    and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

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

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33     For as the churning of milk produces butter,
    and the wringing of the nose produces blood;
    so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

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

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