16A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16)Note, 1. Passion is folly: A fool is known by his anger (so some read it); not but that a wise man may be angry when there is just cause for it, but then he has his anger under check and direction, is lord of his anger , whereas a fool’s anger lords it over him. He that, when he is provoked, breaks out into indecent expressions, in words or behaviour, whose passion alters his countenance, makes hi…
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