Proverbs 25:28
Just like a city lying in the open and without surrounding walls, so also is a man who is unable to restrain his own spirit in speaking.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:17For this reason, consider and realize what you should do. For evil has been decided against your husband and against your house. And he is a son of Belial, so that no one is able to speak to him.”
Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me: “Those who have remained and have been left behind from the captivity, there in the province, are in great affliction and in disgrace. And the wall of Jerusalem has been broken apart, and its gates have been burned with fire.”
Proverbs 19:18Teach your son; do not despair. But do not set your soul toward putting him to death.
Proverbs 22:24Do not be willing to be a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:28
27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. I. Two things we must be graciously dead to:—1. To the pleasures of sense, for it is not good to eat much honey; though it pleases the taste, and, if eaten with moderation, is very wholesome, yet, if eaten to excess, it becomes nauseous, creates bile, and is the occasion of many diseases. It is true of all the delights of the children of men that they will surfeit, but never satisfy, and they are dangerous to those that allow… Read the whole commentary →