Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 19:19
A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver [him], yet thou must do it again.
19. do it again ] Because, if you deliver him by paying for him or otherwise ridding him of the “penalty” which his passionate action has brought upon him, his unbridled temper is sure to bring him into trouble again, and so you had better let things take their course.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The sense of the last words seems to be that the connection between wrath and punishment is so invariable, that all efforts to save the passionate man from the disastrous consequences which he brings on his own head are made in vain.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 19. A man of great wrath] He who is of an irritable, fiery disposition, will necessarily get himself into many broils; and he that is surety for him once is likely to be called on again and again for the same friendly office.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
A man of great wrath; or, he who is of great wrath, of strong passions; which may be understood either,
1. More particularly, of a son of such a temper, who is very impatient of correction, and breaks forth into violent passions upon that occasion; and then the following words contain the parents duty, which is to take care to punish him, because if he spare him that thee for his passion, he must do so again and again, the same cause returning upon him, and so must wholly forbear to chasten him. Or,
2. More generally, of any man of a fierce and furious temper and carriage; and then the next words declare only the event, by his great and repeated provocations he will bring punishment upon himself, either from God or men.
If thou deliver him; if either a parent, or another person provoked by him, forbear to punish him. He turneth his speech to the party, as is usual in Scripture and in other authors.
Thou must do it again, Heb. thou must add, to wit, to deliver him again and again, as oft as he shall offend; or, thou wilt add or increase, to wit, his wrath, which thou shouldst subdue.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
19. Repeated efforts of kindnessare lost on ill-natured persons.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment,…. Either a child that is of a wrathful disposition, and provokes his parent to wrath; or a parent that chastises his child in wrath; each shall suffer for it; or any man that gives way to wrath and anger and is continually quarrelling, he involves himself in trouble; and is punished, as his offence requires, according to law, either in his person or estate;
for if thou deliver [him], yet thou must do it again; if he is got out of one broil, he will get into another quickly; if he clear of one lawsuit, another will be commenced against him in a short time; if he is discharged and freed from a penalty he is justly subject to, it must be done again and again; he will fall into the same evil, and there is no end of appearing, for him and serving him; a wrathful man brings himself into great trouble, as may be seen in Shimei, 2Sa 16:7 1Ki 2:46.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.
1. As we read this, it intimates, in short, that angry men never want woe. Those that are of strong, or rather headstrong, passions, commonly bring themselves and their families into trouble by vexatious suits and quarrels and the provocations they give; they are still smarting, in one instance or other, for their ungoverned heats; and, if their friends deliver them out of one trouble, they will quickly involve themselves in another, and they must do it again, all which troubles to themselves and others would be prevented if they would mortify their passions and get the rule of their own spirits. 2. It may as well be read, He that is of great wrath (meaning the child that is to be corrected and is impatient of rebuke, cries and makes a noise, even that wrath of his against the rod of correction) deserves to be punished; for, if thou deliver him for the sake of that, thou wilt be forced to punish him so much the more next time. A stomachful high-spirited child must be subdued betimes, or it will be the worse for it.
Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary
The Uncontrollable Temper
Verse 19 suggests that the man who cannot control his temper will be in trouble repeatedly despite efforts of others to pacify his problems.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
(19) For if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.As St. Paul says (Gal. 6:5), Every man shall bear his own burden. We cannot shield wrong-headed people from the consequences of their want of self-control, however much we may pity them for the suffering they have brought on themselves.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
19. Man of great wrath punishment A man of violent passions must bear a fine, (punishment;) for if thou deliver him thou wilt haveto do it again. Conant renders: “He that is rough in anger.”
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
v. 19. A man of great wrath,
Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
Pro 19:19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver [him], yet thou must do it again.
Ver. 19. A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment. ] He that lays the reins on the neck, and sets no bounds to his wrath, whether in chastising his child, or otherwise, shall be sure to smart for it: shall bring himself and his friends into great trouble. Such, therefore, as are choleric should pray much, and prevent all occasions of wrath; as Callius and Cotis, because they would not be stirred up to anger, burned their enemies’ letters before they were read. The like did Pompey to the letters of Sertorius, and Caesar to Pompey’s letters.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
A man of great wrath = one in a rage (compare Dan 11:44. Compare 2Ki 22:13).
shall suffer = suffereth.
suffer punishment = incurreth a penalty. Hebrew. ‘onesh = a fine, or indemnity. (Oxford Gesenius).
thou deliver = thou rescue him [by paying the penalty] thou must do it continually.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Pro 19:19
Pro 19:19
“A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if thou deliver him, thou must do it yet again.”
“The sense of this proverb seems to be that the connection between unseemly anger and punishment is so invariable that any effort to save such a man from the disastrous consequences, which he brings upon himself by his anger, would do little good; because it wouldn’t be long till he would again need deliverance.
Pro 19:19. A man given to wrath always turns to it when things dont go as he would have them. It is a sign of a character-weakness: the inability to cope with either ones situation or ones limitations. A man who loses his temper is like a man who gets drunk: it wont be the last time. Pulpit Commentary: While his disposition is unchanged, all your efforts will be useless, and the help which you have given him will only make him think that he may continue to indulge his anger with impunity.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
man: Pro 22:24, Pro 22:25, Pro 25:28, Pro 29:22, 1Sa 20:30, 1Sa 20:31, 1Sa 22:7-23, 1Sa 24:17-22, 1Sa 26:21-25, 2Sa 16:5, 2Sa 16:6
do it again: Heb. add
Reciprocal: Gen 40:2 – wroth 2Ki 23:33 – put Est 3:5 – full of wrath Pro 18:6 – his Col 3:8 – anger Tit 3:2 – no Jam 1:19 – slow to wrath
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 19:19. A man of great wrath Or, he who is of great wrath, that is, of strong passions; who is of a fierce and furious temper; shall suffer punishment Will certainly bring great mischiefs upon himself; for if thou deliver him If any parent, relation, or friend deliver him out of one trouble, through his ungovernable temper he will soon involve himself in another; and thou must do it again Thou wilt soon find it necessary to interpose for his deliverance a second, third, or even fourth time: all which trouble to themselves and others would be prevented if such men would look unto God for grace to enable them to mortify their passions, and to get the rule of their own spirits.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
19:19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou {f} deliver [him], yet thou must do it again.
(f) Though for a time he gives place to counsel, yet soon after will he give place to his raging affections.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
An uncontrolled temper will repeatedly send its owner into fresh trouble. The implication is that it is futile to bail such a person out of the trouble he gets himself into with his temper.
"Whereas the son is corrected by parental discipline, the hothead must be corrected by allowing the consequences of his own foibles to punish him. The wise father does not interfere in the operation of the cause-consequence of the divinely established penal and remedial moral order. Ironically, the person who ’rescues’ the hothead becomes caught in the unhealthy dynamics of his way." [Note: Waltke, The Book . . . 31, p. 113.]