29 A patient person shows great understanding,(A)
but a quick-tempered one promotes foolishness.

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29 Patience leads to abundant understanding,
    but impatience leads to stupid mistakes.

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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 Better to be patient than a warrior,
    and better to have self-control than to capture a city.

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11 A person’s insight gives him patience,(A)
and his virtue is to overlook an offense.(B)

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11 Insightful people restrain their anger;
    their glory is to ignore an offense.

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23 When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
consider carefully what[a] is before you,
and put a knife to your throat
if you have a big[b] appetite;
don’t desire his choice food,(A)
for that food is deceptive.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:1 Or who
  2. Proverbs 23:2 Lit you are the master of an

23 When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
    carefully consider what is in front of you.
Place a knife at your throat
    to control your appetite.
Don’t long for the ruler’s delicacies;
    the food misleads.

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28 A man who does not control his temper(A)
is like a city whose wall is broken down.(B)

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28 A person without self-control
    is like a breached city, one with no walls.

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29 One who becomes stiff-necked,
after many reprimands
will be shattered instantly—
beyond recovery.(A)

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29 One who stays stubborn after many corrections
    will be suddenly broken, beyond healing.

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