New Revised Standard Version
Fools show their anger at once, but the prudent ignore an insult.

Contemporary English Version
Losing your temper is foolish; ignoring an insult is smart.

New American Bible
Fools immediately show their anger, but the shrewd conceal contempt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A fool immediately sheweth his anger: but he that dissembleth injuries is wise.

A fool immediately sheweth his anger: but he that dissembleth injuries is wise.

fool's

Proverbs 25:28 As a city that lieth open and is not compassed with walls, so is a man that cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking.

Proverbs 29:11 A fool uttereth all his mind: a wise man deferreth, and keepeth it till afterwards.

1 Samuel 20:30-34 Then Saul being angry against Jonathan, said to him: Thou son of a woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest the son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy shameless mother? . . .

1 Kings 19:1,2 And Achab told Jezabel all that Elias had done, and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. . . .

presently or in that day

Proverbs 10:12 In the lips of the wise is wisdom found: and a rod on the back of him that wanteth sense.

Proverbs 16:22 Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that possesseth it: the instruction of fools is foolishness.

Proverbs 17:9 He that concealeth a transgression, seeketh friendships: he that repeateth it again, separateth friends.

Proverbs 29:11 A fool uttereth all his mind: a wise man deferreth, and keepeth it till afterwards.

James 1:19 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.