Proverbs 25:28

More Proverbs Of Solomon

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey,
Nor is it glory to search out one’s own glory.
²⁸ Like a city that is broken into and without walls
Is a man who has no control over his spirit.

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Proverbs 16:32

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
And he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city.

1 Samuel 20:30

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you are choosing the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

2 Chronicles 32:5

And he took courage and rebuilt all the wall that had been broken down and erected towers on it, and built another outside wall and strengthened the Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in great number.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire.”

Proverbs 22:24

Do not associate with a man given to anger;
Or go with a hot-tempered man,

1 Samuel 25:17

Now therefore, know and consider what you should do, for evil is plotted against our master and against all his household; and he is such a worthless man that no one can speak to him.”