Proverbs 29:22 (BSB)

An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.

From Proverbs 29. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 29:22

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 29:22: See here the mischief that flows from an angry, passionate, furious disposition. 1. It makes men provoking to one another: An angry man stirs up strife, is troublesome and quarrelsome in the family and in the neighbourhood, blows the coals, and even forces those to fall out with him that would live peaceable and quietly by him. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 29:22: An angry man stirreth up strife,.... In families, neighbourhoods, communities, churches, and commonwealths; that is, one that is given to anger, and gives way to it, in whom it prevails and rules; and a furious man aboundeth in transgression; or, "a master of wrath or fury" (y); one much addicted to it: or, "the husband of wrath": wedded to it, as a man to his...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 29:22: (Compare Pro 15:18). Such are delighted by discord and violence.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 29:22: Pro 29:22 The following group begins with a proverb which rhymes by מדון, with מנון of the foregoing, and extends on to the end of this Hezekiah collection: 22 A man of anger stirreth up strife; And a passionate man aboundeth in transgression. Line first is a variation of Pro 15:18 and Pro 28:25. אישׁ and בּעל as here, but in the reverse order at Pro 22:24.