Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
New American Standard Bible
But he who is
King James Version
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Holman Bible
but a quick-tempered one promotes foolishness.
International Standard Version
Being slow to get angry compares to great understanding as being quick-tempered compares to stupidity.
A Conservative Version
He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
American Standard Version
He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; But he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Amplified
He who is slow to anger has great understanding [and profits from his self-control],
But he who is quick-tempered exposes and exalts his foolishness [for all to see].
Bible in Basic English
He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.
Darby Translation
He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Julia Smith Translation
The slow to anger of much understanding: and the short of spirit exalts folly.
King James 2000
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[He who is] slow to anger [has] great understanding, but the hasty of spirit exalts folly.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Patience is a token of wisdom; but wrath and hasty displeasure is a token of foolishness.
NET Bible
The one who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.
New Heart English Bible
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
The Emphasized Bible
One slow to anger, hath great understanding, but, the hasty in spirit, exalteth folly.
Webster
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
World English Bible
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whoso is slow to anger is of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.
Themes
Anger » A characteristic of fools
Anger » Those that are slow to anger
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 14:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
28 In the multitude of people is the king's honor, but in the lack of people is the ruin of the prince. 29 He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly. 30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh, but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Phrases
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
James 1:19
Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
Proverbs 14:17
He who is soon angry acts foolishly, and a man of wicked plots is hated.
Proverbs 16:32
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit is better than he who takes a city.
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirs up fighting, but one slow to anger calms fighting.
Proverbs 19:11
The judgment of a man puts off his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Numbers 12:3
(Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all the men on the face of the earth.)
Proverbs 22:24-25
Make no friendship with an angry man; and you shall not go up with a man of fury,
Proverbs 25:28
He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a broken down city without a wall.
Proverbs 4:8
Prize her, and she shall lift you up; she shall bring you to honor when you embrace her.
Proverbs 25:8
Do not go forth quickly to fight, lest you know not what to do in the end of it, when your neighbor has put you to shame.
Ecclesiastes 10:6
foolishness is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was greatly enraged. And he sent and killed all the boys in Bethlehem, and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had carefully inquired of the wise men.
Matthew 11:29
Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5
Charity has patience, is kind; charity is not envious, is not vain, is not puffed up;
James 3:17-18
But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
Daniel 3:19-25
Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.