Proverbs 14:29
He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
In Context
30Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh: but envy is the rottenness of the bones.
Cross References
Numbers 12:3(For Moses was a man exceeding meek above all men that dwelt upon earth) Exceeding meek... Moses being the meekest of men, would not contend for himself; therefore, God inspired him to write here his own defence: and the Holy Spirit, whose dictate he wrote, obliged him to declare the truth, though it was so much to his own praise.
Proverbs 14:17The impatient man shall work folly: and the crafty man is hateful.
Proverbs 16:32The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh cities.
Proverbs 22:24Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:
Proverbs 25:28As a city that lieth open and is not compassed with walls, so is a man that cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking.
Ecclesiastes 7:9Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:29
28 In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince. Here are two maxims in politics, which carry their own evidence with them:—1. That it is much for the honour of a king to have a populous kingdom; it is a sign that he rules well, since strangers are hereby invited to come and settle under his protection and his own subjects live comfortably; it is a sign that he and his kingdom are under the blessing of God, the effect of which is being fruitful and… Read the whole commentary →