Proverbs 25:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁸ He whose spirit is without restraint Is like a city that is broken down and hath no 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 took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and the other wall without, and strengthened Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

Proverbs 16:32

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; And he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Proverbs 19:18

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

Proverbs 19:19

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

Proverbs 22:24

Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:

1 Samuel 20:30

Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and unto the shame of thy mother's nakedness?

1 Samuel 25:17

Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house: for he is such a son of Belial, that one cannot speak to him.