He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall; and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.
Proverbs 25:28 - Revised Standard Version A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He that hath no rule over his own spirit Is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) He whose spirit is without restraint Is like a city that is broken down and without walls. Common English Bible A person without self-control is like a breached city, one with no walls. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 As a city that lieth open and is not compassed with walls, so is a man that cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking. |
He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall; and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.
And they said to me, “The survivors there in the province who escaped exile are in great trouble and shame; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Discipline your son while there is hope; do not set your heart on his destruction.
A man of great wrath will pay the penalty; for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?
Now therefore know this and consider what you should do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is so ill-natured that one cannot speak to him.”