OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 14:17

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He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

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Verse 17. Folly. Wrath betrays us into great extravagances.—Hateful. Hebrew also, “hateth” folly. Septuagint “the prudent beareth much.” Job 5:2. Calmet.

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