Proverbs 14:17

A quick temper leads to folly, and scheming earns hatred. Both rash anger and calculated malice are condemned.

Cross-references · 14

• Prov 14:29He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
• Jas 1:19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
• Prov 29:22An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
• Eccl 7:9Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
• Prov 15:18A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
• Prov 16:32One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
• Prov 22:24Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
• Prov 12:2A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.
• Esth 7:5–6Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”
• Jer 5:26–29For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
• Isa 32:7The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
• Esth 3:6But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.
• Prov 12:16A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.
• Prov 6:18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

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