John Gill Commentary Proverbs 29:22

"An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression." — Proverbs 29:22 (ASV)

An angry man stirs 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 abounds in transgression ; or, "a master of wrath or fury" ^F25 ; one much addicted to it: or, "the husband of wrath": wedded to it, as a man to his wife: or, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "who is easy to be angry"; is easily provoked, wrath rises up in him at once; this leads him on to many sins, as cursing, swearing, murder,

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FOOTNOTES:

• F25: (hmx leb) "dominus furoris", so Vatablus, Piscator, Michaelis.