Proverbs 19:11 (BSB)

A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.

From Proverbs 19. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 19:11

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 19:11: A wise man will observe these two rules about his anger: 1. Not to be over-hasty in his resentments: Discretion teaches us to defer our anger, to defer the admission of it till we have thoroughly considered all the merits of the provocation, seen them in a true light and weighed them in a just balance; and then to defer the prosecution of it till...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 19:11: The discretion of a man deferreth his anger,.... That he does not show it immediately; but takes time to consider of the offence given him, and makes use of a proper time to resent what is fit should be resented; he is a wise and discreet man that is slow to anger, Pro 14:29.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 19:11: (Compare Pro 14:29; Pro 16:32). This inculcation of a forgiving spirit shows that true religion is always the same (Mat 5:22-24).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 19:11: The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and [it is] his glory to pass over a transgression. (d) That is, to cover it by charity, and to do in it as may most serve to God's glory.