1A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1)Solomon, as conservator of the public peace, here tells us, 1. How the peace may be kept, that we may know how in our places to keep it; it is by soft words. If wrath be risen like a threatening cloud, pregnant with storms and thunder, a soft answer will disperse it and turn it away. When men are provoked, speak gently to them, and give them good words, and they will be pacified, as the Ephraimite…
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