Proverbs 16:32 Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.

English Standard Version
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

New American Standard Bible
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city.

King James Bible
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Patience is better than power, and controlling one's temper, than capturing a city.

International Standard Version
Whoever controls his temper is better than a warrior, and anyone who has control of his spirit is better than someone who captures a city.

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Young's Literal Translation
Better is the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.

Cross References

James 1:19
Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

2 Kings 5:12
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.

Proverbs 14:29
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

Proverbs 16:31
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

Proverbs 16:33
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.

Proverbs 19:11
The discretion of a man defers his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Proverbs 25:28
He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

16:27,28. Ungodly men bestow more pains to do mischief than would be needful to do good. The whisperer separates friends: what a hateful, but how common a character! 29,30. Some do all the mischief they can by force and violence, and are blind to the result. 31. Old people especially should be found in the way of religion and godliness. 32. To overcome our own passions, requires more steady management, than obtaining victory over an enemy. 33. All the disposal of Providence concerning our affairs, we must look upon to be the determining what we referred to God; and we must be reconciled to them accordingly. Blessed are those that give themselves up to the will of God; for he knows what is good for them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

32. (Compare Pr 14:29).

taketh a city—that is, by fighting.