Proverbs 25:28 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁸ A man who has no control over his spirit Is like a broken-down city without a wall.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ He that hath no rule over his own spirit Is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls. [Prov. 16:32.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ He whose spirit is without restraint Is like a city that is broken down and without walls.

Common English Bible

²⁸ A person without self-control is like a breached city, one with no walls.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ Just like a city lying in the open and without surrounding walls, so also is a man who is unable to restrain his own spirit in speaking.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ As a city that lieth open and is not compassed with walls, so is a man that cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking.

Proverbs 25:28 Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:5

And he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and outside of it another wall, and strengthened Millo, the City of Dawiḏ, and made large numbers of weapons and shields.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity in the province are there in great evil and reproach. And the wall of Yerushalayim is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

Proverbs 16:32

He who is patient is better than the mighty, And he who rules over his spirit than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 19:18

Discipline your son because there is expectation, And do not set your being on his destruction.

Proverbs 19:19

One of great wrath bears punishment; For if you rescue him, You only have to do it again.

Proverbs 22:24

Make no friendship with one given to wrath, And do not go with a man of rage,

1 Samuel 20:30

Then the displeasure of Sha’ul burned against Yehonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Yishai to your own shame and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

1 Samuel 25:17

“And now, know and see what you should do, for evil has been resolved against our master, and against all his household, and he is too much of a son of Beliya‛al to speak to.”