Proverbs 29:22

22 Angry people stir up strife; hot-tempered people commit many crimes.

Proverbs 29:22 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 29:22

An angry man stirreth up strife
In families, neighbourhoods, communities, churches, and commonwealths; that is, one that is given to anger, and gives way to it, in whom it prevails and rules; and a furious man aboundeth in transgression;
or, "a master of wrath or fury" F25; one much addicted to it: or, "the husband of wrath": wedded to it, as a man to his wife: or, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "who is easy to be angry"; is easily provoked, wrath rises up in him at once; this leads him on to many sins, as cursing, swearing, murder,


FOOTNOTES:

F25 (hmx leb) "dominus furoris", so Vatablus, Piscator, Michaelis.

Proverbs 29:22 In-Context

20 Do you see someone too anxious to speak? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
21 A slave who is pampered from youth will in the end be ungrateful.
22 Angry people stir up strife; hot-tempered people commit many crimes.
23 The proud will be humbled, but the humble will be honored.
24 The accomplice of a thief hates himself; he hears himself put under oath but discloses nothing.
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