29He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29)Note, 1. Meekness is wisdom. He rightly understands himself, and his duty and interest, the infirmities of human nature, and the constitution of human society, who is slow to anger , and knows how to excuse the faults of others as well as his own, how to adjourn his resentments, and moderate them, so as by no provocation to be put out of the possession of his own soul. A mild patient man is really…
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