Proverbs 12:16
Foolish people quickly become angry when someone does something that they don’t like; but those who have good sense ignore it when others insult them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 19:1When Ahab got home, he told his wife Jezebel what Elijah had done. He told her that Elijah had killed all the prophets of Baal.
Proverbs 14:33Those who have good sense always think what is wise; foolish people do not know anything about being wise.
Proverbs 17:9If you want people to like/love you, forgive them for the wrong things that they do to you. If you continue to remind them about those wrong things, they will no longer be your friends.
Proverbs 29:11People who are wise are patient and restrain/control themselves when they are angry, but foolish people ◄quickly show others that they are very angry/do not restrain themselves at all►.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:16
15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise. See here, 1. What it is that keeps a fool from being wise: His way is right in his own eyes; he thinks he is in the right in every thing he does, and therefore asks no advice, because he does not apprehend he needs it; he is confident he knows the way, and cannot miss it, and therefore never enquires the way. The rule he goes by is to do that which is right in his own eyes, to walk in the way of his heart. Quicquid libet,… Read the whole commentary →