Let us watch over our own passions, and avoid the company of furious men.
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Proverbs 17:12
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commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 17:1-28EXPOSITIONJoseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 17:10-15Dark phases of human character We may take Proverbs 17:10 as an introduction to what follows. Exhortations are to be given, and the preacher would prepare us to receive them. On the sensitive mind the censure of the goo…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 17:12Note, 1. A passionate man is a brutish man. However at other times he may have some wisdom, take him in his passion ungoverned, and he is a fool in his folly; those are fools in whose bosom anger rests and in whose coun…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 17:12Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man. The Syrian bear was once common throughout Palestine; it is now found in but few localities, such as the hills of Hermon and Lebanon, and in the hills east of the Jordan, the…Joseph S. Exell and contributors