Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Patience is a token of wisdom; but wrath and hasty displeasure is a token of foolishness.
New American Standard Bible
But he who is
King James Version
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Holman Bible
but a quick-tempered one promotes foolishness.
International Standard Version
Being slow to get angry compares to great understanding as being quick-tempered compares to stupidity.
A Conservative Version
He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
American Standard Version
He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; But he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Amplified
He who is slow to anger has great understanding [and profits from his self-control],
But he who is quick-tempered exposes and exalts his foolishness [for all to see].
Bible in Basic English
He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.
Darby Translation
He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Julia Smith Translation
The slow to anger of much understanding: and the short of spirit exalts folly.
King James 2000
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[He who is] slow to anger [has] great understanding, but the hasty of spirit exalts folly.
Modern King James verseion
He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
NET Bible
The one who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.
New Heart English Bible
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
The Emphasized Bible
One slow to anger, hath great understanding, but, the hasty in spirit, exalteth folly.
Webster
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
World English Bible
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whoso is slow to anger is of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.
Themes
Anger » A characteristic of fools
Anger » Those that are slow to anger
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 14:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
28 The increase and prosperity of the commons is the king's honour; but the decay of the people is the confusion of the prince. 29 Patience is a token of wisdom; but wrath and hasty displeasure is a token of foolishness. 30 A merry heart is the life of the body; but rancor consumeth away the bones.
Phrases
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Be not hastily angry in thy mind, for wrath resteth in the bosom of a fool.
James 1:19
Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Proverbs 14:17
An impatient man handleth foolishly; but he that is well advised, doth other ways.
Proverbs 16:32
A patient man is better than one strong; and he that can rule himself, is more worth than he that winneth a city.
Proverbs 15:18
An angry man stirreth up strife; but he that is patient stilleth discord.
Proverbs 19:11
A wise man putteth off displeasure, and it is his honour to let some faults pass.
Numbers 12:3
But Moses was a very meek man, above all the men of the earth.
Proverbs 22:24-25
Make no friendship with an angry willful man, and keep no company with the furious;
Proverbs 25:28
He that can not rule himself, is like a city which is broken down, and hath no walls.
Proverbs 4:8
Make much of her and she shall promote thee: Yea, if thou embracest her, she shall bring thee unto honour.
Proverbs 25:8
Be not hasty to go to the law, lest thou knowest not what to do when thy neighbor hath confounded thee.
Ecclesiastes 10:6
in that a fool sitteth in great dignity, and the rich are set down beneath.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, perceiving that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, as many as were two years old and under according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the wise men.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke on you, and learn of me; for I am meek, and lowly of heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5
Love suffereth long, and is courteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not forwardly, swelleth not,
James 3:17-18
but the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, and without simulation.
Daniel 3:19-25
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of indignation, so that the countenance of his face changed upon Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Therefore he charged and commanded, that the oven should be made seven times hotter, than it was wont to be: