Proverbs 25:28 - Tree of Life Version

²⁸ Like a city whose walls are broken down is one with no control over his temper.

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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

Then he took courage and rebuilt the entire wall that had been broken down, raised up the towers, added another outer wall, fortified the Millo in the city of David, and made plenty of weapons and shields.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant who have survived the captivity there in the province are in great distress and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates have been burned with fire.”

Proverbs 16:32

Better to be slow to anger than a mighty warrior. One who controls his temper is better than one who conquers a city.

Proverbs 19:18

Discipline your son while there is hope. Do not set your heart on his death.

Proverbs 19:19

One with great rage will pay a penalty. For if you rescue him, you will have to do it again.

Proverbs 22:24

Do not be friends with one given to anger or associate with a hot-tempered person,

1 Samuel 20:30

Then Saul’s rage blazed against Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse—to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

1 Samuel 25:17

Now therefore, know and consider what you will do, for evil is determined against our master and against all his household. But he is such a worthless fellow that no one can speak to him.”