Proverbs 25:28

In 11 translations

BSB

Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.

KJV

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

WEB

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

ASV

He whose spirit is without restraint Is like a city that is broken down and without walls.

LSV

A city broken down without walls, || [Is] a man without restraint over his spirit!

YLT

A city broken down without walls, [Is] a man without restraint over his spirit!

DBY

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is [as] a city broken down, without walls.

DRC

As a city that lieth open and is not compassed with walls, so is a man that cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking.

GNV

A man that refraineth not his appetite, is like a citie which is broken downe and without walles.

JPS

Like a city broken down and without a wall, so is he whose spirit is without restraint.

LXXE

As a city whose walls are broken down, and which is unfortified, so is a man who does anything without counsel.

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Original-language editions

WLC

עִ֣יר פְּ֭רוּצָה אֵ֣ין חוֹמָ֑ה אִ֝֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֵ֖ין מַעְצָ֣ר לְרוּחֽוֹ׃

LXX-Br

Ὥσπερ πόλις τὰ τείχη καταβεβλημένη καὶ ἀτείχιστος, οὕτως ἀνὴρ ὃς οὐ μετὰ βουλῆς τι πράσσει.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 16:32He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.
• Proverbs 22:24Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
• Nehemiah 1:3And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
• 2 Chronicles 32:5Then Hezekiah worked resolutely to rebuild all the broken sections of the wall and to raise up towers on it. He also built an outer wall and reinforced the supporting terraces of the City of David, and he produced an…
• 1 Samuel 20:30Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who…
• 1 Samuel 25:17Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”

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