Proverbs 25:28

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 16:32

The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh cities.

Proverbs 22:24

Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me: They that have remained, and are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction and reproach: And the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire.

2 Chronicles 32:5

He built up also with great diligence all the wall that had been broken down, and built towers upon it, and another wall without. And he repaired Mello in the city of David, and made all sorts of arms and shields.

1 Samuel 25:17

Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is determined against thy husband, and against thy house. And he is a son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him.

1 Samuel 20:30

Then Saul being angry against Jonathan said to him: Thou son of a woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest the son of Isai to thy own confusion and to the confusion of thy shameless mother?

Proverbs 19:18

Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.

Proverbs 19:19

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