Proverbs 19:11
The learning of a man is known by patience and his glory is to pass over wrongs.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
In Context
10Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for a servant to have rule over princes.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:16A fool immediately sheweth his anger: but he that dissembleth injuries is wise.
Proverbs 15:18A passionate man stirreth up strifes: he that is patient appeaseth those that are stirred up.
Proverbs 17:14The beginning of quarrels is as when one letteth out water: before he suffereth reproach he forsaketh judgment.
Proverbs 20:22Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord and he will deliver thee.
Matthew 5:44But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:
Romans 12:18If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all men.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:11
10 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. Note, 1. Pleasure and liberty ill become a fool: Delight is not seemly for such a one. A man that has not wisdom and grace has no right nor title to true joy, and therefore it is unseemly. It ill becomes those that do not delight in God to delight in any thing, nor how to manage themselves, and therefore they do but expose themselves. It becomes ungracious fools to be afflicted, and mourn, and weep, not to laugh and be merry;… Read the whole commentary →