Proverbs 20:3 (BSB)

It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.

From Proverbs 20. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 20:3

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 20:3: This is designed to rectify men's mistakes concerning strife. 1. Men think it is their wisdom to engage in quarrels; whereas it is the greatest folly that can be. He thinks himself a wise man that is quick in resenting affronts, that stands upon every nicety of honour and right, and will not abate an ace of either, that prescribes, and imposes, and gives law...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 20:3: It is an honour for a man to cease from strife,.... As Abraham did, Gen 13:7; when engaged in a quarrel with his neighbour, or in a lawsuit, or in a religious controversy, especially when he finds he is in the wrong; and indeed, if he is in the right, when he perceives it is like to issue in no good, and is only about...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 20:3: to cease from strife--or, better, "to dwell from or without strife," denoting the habit of life. fool . . . meddling-- (Pro 17:14).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 20:3: Pro 20:3 3 It is an honour to a man to remain far from strife; But every fool showeth his teeth. Or better: whoever is a fool quisquis amens, for the emphasis does not lie on this, that every fool, i.e., every single one of this sort, contends to the uttermost; but that whoever is only always a fool finds pleasure in such strife.