Proverbs 12:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.

Proverbs 12:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 29:11
A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Proverbs 25:28
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Proverbs 17:9
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Topics

Anger Caution Consistency Counsel Expediency Opinion, Public Prudence Speaking

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 him…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. prudent ... shame--He is slow to denounce his insulters (Jas 1:19).