16 (A)The vexation of a fool is known at once,
    but the prudent ignores an insult.

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16 The anger of a fool becomes readily apparent,
    but the prudent person overlooks an insult.

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16 (A)One who is wise is cautious[a] and (B)turns away from evil,
    but a fool is reckless and careless.
17 A man of (C)quick temper acts foolishly,
    and a man of evil devices is hated.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 14:16 Or fears [the Lord]

16 The wise person fears and turns away from evil,
    but a fool is reckless and overconfident.
17 A quick tempered person does foolish things,
    and a devious man is hated.

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29 Whoever is (A)slow to anger has great understanding,
    but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

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29 Being slow to get angry compares to great understanding
    as being quick-tempered compares to stupidity.

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18 (A)A hot-tempered man (B)stirs up strife,
    but he who is (C)slow to anger quiets contention.

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18 The quickly angered man stirs up contention,
    but anyone who controls his temper calms a dispute.

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32 (A)Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
    and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

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32 Whoever controls his temper is better than a warrior,
    and anyone who has control of his spirit is better
        than someone who captures a city.

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11 (A)Good sense makes one slow to anger,
    and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

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11 A person’s discretion makes him slow to anger,
    and it is to his credit that he ignores an offence.

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19 A man of great wrath will pay the penalty,
    for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.

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19 The person who has great anger must pay the consequences,
    because if you rescue him, you will have to do it again.

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24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger,
    nor go with a wrathful man,
25 lest you learn his ways
    and entangle yourself in a snare.

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24 Don’t make friends with a hot-tempered man,
    and do not associate with someone who is easily angered,
25 or you may learn his ways
    and find yourself caught in a trap.

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(A)Scoffers set a city aflame,
    but the wise turn away wrath.

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Scornful men enflame a city,
    but the wise defuse anger.

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22 (A)A man of wrath stirs up strife,
    and one given to anger causes much transgression.

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22 An angry man stirs up arguments,
    and a hot-tempered man causes many transgressions.

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33 For pressing milk produces curds,
    pressing the nose produces blood,
    and pressing anger produces strife.

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33 Just as whipping milk produces butter,
    and twisting the nose causes bleeding,
        so also stirring up anger produces contention.

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