Proverbs 15:18 (BSB)

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.

From Proverbs 15. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 15:18

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 15:18: Here is, 1. Passion the great make-bate. Thence come wars and fightings. Anger strikes the fire which sets cities and churches into a flame: A wrathful man, with his peevish passionate reflections, stirs up strife, and sets people together by the ears; he gives occasion to others to quarrel, and takes the occasion that others give, though ever so trifling.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 15:18: A wrathful man stirreth up strife,.... A man of a wrathful disposition, of a furious spirit, of an angry temper; that is under the power and dominion of such a passion, and indulges it, and takes all opportunities to gratify it; he stirs up strife and contention where there was none, or where it was laid; as a man stirs up coals of fire and...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 15:18: Pro 15:18 Two proverbs of two different classes of men, each second line of which terminates with a catchword having a similar sound (וארך, וארח). 18 A passionate man stirreth up strife, And one who is slow to anger allayeth contention. Pro 28:25 and Pro 29:22 are variations of the first line of this proverb. The Pih. גּרה occurs only these three times in the phrase גּרה מדון, R.