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New Living Translation

Proverbs 14:29

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anger;   Meekness;   Rashness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Understanding;   Wisdom-Folly;   The Topic Concordance - Anger;   Folly;   Haste;   Understanding;   Wrath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Spirit;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Spirit;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Longsuffering;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fool;   Holy Spirit;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anger;   Patience;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for April 30;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
He who is slow to anger has great discernment,But he who is quick‑tempered raises up folly.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who is quick-tempered exalts folly.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that is patient hath much vnderstanding: but he that is soone displeased, exalteth foolishnesse.
Darby Translation
He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
New King James Version
He who is slow to wrath has great understanding,But he who is impulsive [fn] exalts folly.
Literal Translation
One slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is short of spirit exalts folly.
Easy-to-Read Version
A patient person is very smart. A quick-tempered person makes stupid mistakes.
World English Bible
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who has a quick temper displays folly.
King James Version (1611)
Hee that is slow to wrath, is of great vnderstanding: but hee that is hasty of spirit, exalteth folly.
King James Version
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Pacience is a token of wi?dome, but wrath and haistie displeasure is a token of foolishnesse.
THE MESSAGE
Slowness to anger makes for deep understanding; a quick-tempered person stockpiles stupidity.
Amplified Bible
He who is slow to anger has great understanding [and profits from his self-control], But he who is quick-tempered exposes and exalts his foolishness [for all to see].
American Standard Version
He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; But he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Bible in Basic English
He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.
Update Bible Version
He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; But he that is in a hurry of spirit exalts folly.
Webster's Bible Translation
[He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding: but [he that is] hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
New English Translation
The one who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.
Contemporary English Version
It's smart to be patient, but it's stupid to lose your temper.
Complete Jewish Bible
Being slow to anger goes with great understanding, being quick-tempered makes folly still worse.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He yt is slowe to wrath, is of great wisdome: but he that is of an hastie minde, exalteth follie.
George Lamsa Translation
He who is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he who is hasty of temper is exceedingly foolish.
Hebrew Names Version
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who has a quick temper displays folly.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
New Life Bible
He who is slow to get angry has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper makes his foolish way look right.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom: but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish.
English Revised Version
He that is slow to anger is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Berean Standard Bible
A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.
New Revised Standard
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
One slow to anger, hath great understanding, but, the hasty in spirit, exalteth folly.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.
Lexham English Bible
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the hasty of spirit exalts folly.
English Standard Version
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
New American Standard Bible
One who is slow to anger has great understanding; But one who is quick-tempered exalts foolishness.
New Century Version
Patient people have great understanding, but people with quick tempers show their foolishness.
Good News Translation
If you stay calm, you are wise, but if you have a hot temper, you only show how stupid you are.
Christian Standard Bible®
A patient person shows great understanding, but a quick-tempered one promotes foolishness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that is pacient, is gouerned bi myche wisdom; but he that is vnpacient, enhaunsith his foli.
Revised Standard Version
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is slow to anger [is] of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.

Contextual Overview

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

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

slow: Proverbs 14:17, Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 16:32, Numbers 12:3, Matthew 11:29, 1 Corinthians 13:4, 1 Corinthians 13:5, James 1:19, James 3:17, James 3:18

but: Proverbs 22:24, Proverbs 22:25, Proverbs 25:8, Proverbs 25:28, Ecclesiastes 7:9, Daniel 3:19-25, Matthew 2:16

hasty: Heb. short

exalteth: Proverbs 4:8, Ecclesiastes 10:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 16:6 - Abram 1 Samuel 20:30 - Saul's 1 Samuel 25:13 - Gird ye Job 20:2 - and for Psalms 37:8 - Cease Proverbs 17:14 - leave Proverbs 19:2 - and Proverbs 19:11 - deferreth Proverbs 20:3 - an Proverbs 21:5 - of every Proverbs 29:20 - words Ecclesiastes 7:8 - the patient Ecclesiastes 8:3 - not hasty Acts 19:36 - ye ought Ephesians 4:26 - ye

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding,.... Or "long in wrath" e; it is long before he is angry; he is longsuffering, bears much and long, is very patient; such an one appears to understand himself and human nature, and has a great command over his passions; which shows him to be a man of great wisdom and understanding;

but [he that is] hasty of spirit exalteth folly; or is "short of spirit" f; is soon angry; presently discovers resentment in his words, looks, and gestures; such an one "exalts folly", prefers it to wisdom, sets it above himself, and makes it his master: or he "lifts" it g up; exposes his folly to public view, so that it is seen of all men to his disgrace.

e ארך אפים "longus iris", Vatablus; "longus naribus", Montanus; "longus narium", Schultens. f קצר רוח "brevis spiritu", Montanus, Vatblus. Cocceius, Merceus, Michaelis; "curtus spiritu", Schultens. g מרום "attollit", Mercerus, Piscator; "alte proclamat", Schultens; "elevat", Baynus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exalteth folly - Lifts it up, as it were, on high, and exposes it to the gaze of all men.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 14:29. That is hasty of spirit — קצר רוח ketsar ruach, "the short of spirit;" one that is easily irritated; and, being in a passion, he is agitated so as to be literally short of breath. Here put in opposition to ארך אפים erech appayim, long of nostrils; see on Proverbs 14:17; and of the same import with St. Paul's μακροθυμια, longsuffering, longmindedness. See on Ephesians 4:2.


 
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