Proverbs 19:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.

Proverbs 19:18

Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; And set not thy heart on his destruction.

Proverbs 19:20

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Proverbs 25:28

He whose spirit is without restraint Is like a city that is broken down and hath no wall.

Proverbs 29:22

An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.