Proverbs 25:28 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁸ He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

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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.

Proverbs 25:28 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 32:5

Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts 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 while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

Proverbs 19:19

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

Proverbs 22:24

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious 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 the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion 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 household: for he is such a son of Be´li-al, that a man cannot speak to him.