Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.

New American Standard Bible

Like a city that is broken into and without walls
Is a man who has no control over his spirit.

King James Version

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Holman Bible

A man who does not control his temper
is like a city whose wall is broken down.


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International Standard Version

Like a city with breached walls is a man without self-control.

A Conservative Version

He whose spirit is without restraint is a city that is broken down and without walls.

American Standard Version

He whose spirit is without restraint Is like a city that is broken down and without walls.

Amplified


Like a city that is broken down and without walls [leaving it unprotected]
Is a man who has no self-control over his spirit [and sets himself up for trouble].

Darby Translation

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is as a city broken down, without walls.

Julia Smith Translation

A city being broken down, and not a wall, a man who restrains not to his spirit.

King James 2000

He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A breached city [where] there is no wall [is like] a man who {has no} self-control for his spirit.

Modern King James verseion

He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a broken down city without a wall.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He that can not rule himself, is like a city which is broken down, and hath no walls.

NET Bible

Like a city that is broken down and without a wall, so is a person who cannot control his temper.

New Heart English Bible

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

The Emphasized Bible

A city broken down without a wall, is a man who hath no control over his own spirit.

Webster

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

World English Bible

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

Youngs Literal Translation

A city broken down without walls, Is a man without restraint over his spirit!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

מעצר 
Ma`tsar 
Usage: 1

רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

is like a city
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

References

American

Smith

Context Readings

More Proverbs Of Solomon

27 It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured. 28 He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.


Cross References

Proverbs 16:32

He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.

1 Samuel 20:30

Then Saul was moved to wrath against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of an evil and uncontrolled woman, have I not seen how you have given your love to the son of Jesse, to your shame and the shame of your mother?

2 Chronicles 32:5

Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.

Proverbs 22:24

Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:

1 Samuel 25:17

So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.

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