Proverbs 14:29 (BSB)

A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.

From Proverbs 14. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 14:29

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 14:29: Note, 1. Meekness is wisdom. He rightly understands himself, and his duty and interest, the infirmities of human nature, and the constitution of human society, who is slow to anger, and knows how to excuse the faults of others as well as his own, how to adjourn his resentments, and moderate them, so as by no provocation to be put out of the possession of his own soul.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 14:29: He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding,.... Or "long in wrath" (e); it is long before he is angry; he is longsuffering, bears much and long, is very patient; such an one appears to understand himself and human nature, and has a great command over his passions; which shows him to be a man of great wisdom and understanding; but he that...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 14:29: slow . . . understanding--(Compare Pro 14:17). hasty--(Compare Pro 14:17). exalteth folly--makes it conspicuous, as if delighting to honor it.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 14:29: Pro 14:29 29 He that is slow to anger is rich in understanding; But he that is easily excited carries off folly. ארך אפּים (constr. of ארך) is he who puts off anger long, viz., the outbreak of anger, האריך, Pro 19:11, i.e., lets it not come in, but shuts it out long (μακρόθυμος = βραδὺς εἰς ὀργήν, Jam 1:19); and קצר־רוּח, he who in...