Proverbs 25:28 “Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control…”

Proverbs 25:28

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.

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Cross references

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

Proverbs 16:32 Proverbs 22:24 1 Samuel 20:30 1 Samuel 25:17

Proverbs 16:32 · BSB

He 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 22:24 · BSB

Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,

1 Samuel 20:30 · BSB

Then 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 shame of the mother who bore yo…

1 Samuel 25:17 · BSB

Now 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!”

Also

Nehemiah 1:3 2 Chronicles 32:5

Nehemiah 1:3 · BSB

And 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 have been burned with fire.”

2 Chronicles 32:5 · BSB

Then 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 abu…

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In context

27It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.

Read Proverbs 25