Proverbs 14:17
A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, and a devious man is hated.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
In Context
16A wise man fears and turns from evil, but a fool is careless and reckless.
18The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Cross References
Esther 3:6And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
Proverbs 6:18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
Proverbs 12:16A fool’s anger is known at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
Proverbs 15:18A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.
Proverbs 20:3It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.
Proverbs 29:22An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:17
16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. Note, 1. Holy fear is an excellent guard upon every holy thing, and against every thing that is unholy. It is wisdom to depart from evil, from the evil of sin, and thereby from all other evil; and therefore it is wisdom to fear, that is, to be jealous over ourselves with a godly jealousy, to keep up a dread of God's wrath, to be afraid of coming near the borders of sin or dallying with the beginnings of it. A wise man, for fear… Read the whole commentary →