Proverbs 29:11 (BSB)

A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man holds it back.

From Proverbs 29. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 29:11

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 29:11: Note, 1. It is a piece of weakness to be very open: He is a fool who utters all his mind, - who tells every thing he knows, and has in his mouth instantly whatever he has in his thoughts, and can keep no counsel, - who, whatever is started in discourse, quickly shoots his bolt, - who, when he is provoked, will say any...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 29:11: A fool uttereth all his mind,.... At once; tells all he knows, all that is in his breast; whatever he thinks, and all that he intends to do; what or whom he loves or hates. Or, "a fool brings out all his wrath"; so the Targum, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions: he cannot restrain it, nor hide it; it breaks out at once, even all...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 29:11: (Compare Pro 12:16; Pro 16:32). mind--or, "spirit," for anger or any ill passion which the righteous restrain.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 29:11: Pro 29:11 11 All his wrath the fool poureth out; But the wise man husheth it up in the background. That רוּחו is not meant here of his spirit (Luther) in the sense of quaecunque in mente habet (thus e.g., Fleischer) the contrast shows, for ישׁבּחנּה does not signify cohibet, for which יחשׁכנּה (lxx ταμιεύεται) would be the proper word: רוּח thus is not here...