Proverbs 14:29
A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Note hasty…: Heb. short of spirit
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; But he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- slow
- Proverbs 14:17; Proverbs 15:18; Proverbs 16:32; Numbers 12:3; Matthew 11:29; 1 Corinthians 13:4, 5; James 1:19; James 3:17, 18
- but
- Proverbs 22:24, 25; Proverbs 25:8, 28; Ecclesiastes 7:9; Daniel 3:19–25; Matthew 2:16
- hasty
- Heb. short. exalteth.
- Proverbs 4:8; Ecclesiastes 10:6