Proverbs 19:19 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁹ A man of great wrath will pay the penalty; for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: For if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ A man of great wrath shall suffer the penalty; for if you deliver him [from the consequences], he will [feel free to] cause you to do it again.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if thou deliver him, thou must do it yet again.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Angry people must pay the penalty; if you rescue them, then you will have to do it again.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Whoever is impatient will sustain damage. And when it has been taken away, he will set up another.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ He that is impatient, shall suffer damage: and when he shall take away he shall add another thing.

Proverbs 19:19 Cross References

Job 5:2

Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

Proverbs 19:18

Discipline your son while there is hope; do not set your heart on his destruction.

Proverbs 19:20

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.

Proverbs 25:28

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

Proverbs 29:22

A man of wrath stirs up strife, and a man given to anger causes much transgression.