Proverbs 25:28

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

A city breached, without a wall, is a man who is without restraint to his spirit.

Latin

Sicut urbs patens et absque murorum ambitu, ita vir qui non potest in loquendo cohibere spiritum suum.

Hebrew

English

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

Wise people have self-control and are not easily dominated.

Proverbs 16:32
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
Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
Nehemiah 1:3
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
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 abundance of weapons and shields.
1 Samuel 20:30
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 you?
1 Samuel 25:17
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!”