Proverbs 19:19 (BSB)

A man of great anger must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do so again.

From Proverbs 19. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 19:19

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 19:19: 1. As we read this, it intimates, in short, that angry men never want woe. Those that are of strong, or rather headstrong, passions, commonly bring themselves and their families into trouble by vexatious suits and quarrels and the provocations they give; they are still smarting, in one instance or other, for their ungoverned heats; and, if their friends deliver them out of one trouble...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 19:19: A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment,.... Either a child that is of a wrathful disposition, and provokes his parent to wrath; or a parent that chastises his child in wrath; each shall suffer for it; or any man that gives way to wrath and anger and is continually quarrelling, he involves himself in trouble; and is punished, as his offence requires, according to...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 19:19: Repeated efforts of kindness are lost on ill-natured persons.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 19:19: A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver [him], yet thou must do it again. (f) Though for a time he gives place to counsel, yet soon after will he give place to his raging affections.