Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 29:22

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

22. furious ] Rather, wrathful, R.V. Comp. Pro 15:18; Pro 28:25.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Verse 22. An angry man stirreth up strife] His spirit begets its like wherever he goes.

And a furious man aboundeth in transgression.] His furious spirit is always carrying him into extremes, and each of these is a transgression.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

Is by his passion easily transported into grievous and manifold sins against God, and others, and himself, as swearing, and cursing, and violence, yea, sometimes even to murder.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

22. (Compare Pr15:18). Such are delighted by discord and violence.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

An angry man stirreth up strife,…. In families, neighbourhoods, communities, churches, and commonwealths; that is, one that is given to anger, and gives way to it, in whom it prevails and rules;

and a furious man aboundeth in transgression; or, “a master of wrath or fury” y; one much addicted to it: or, “the husband of wrath”: wedded to it, as a man to his wife: or, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it, “who is easy to be angry”; is easily provoked, wrath rises up in him at once; this leads him on to many sins, as cursing, swearing, murder,

y “dominus furoris”, so Vatablus, Piscator, Michaelis.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

The following group begins with a proverb which rhymes by , with of the foregoing, and extends on to the end of this Hezekiah collection:

22 A man of anger stirreth up strife;

And a passionate man aboundeth in transgression.

Line first is a variation of Pro 15:18 and Pro 28:25. and as here, but in the reverse order at Pro 22:24.

(Note: For (Lwenstein after Norzi) is to be written, with Baer ( Thorath Emeth, p. 19), ,)91 . Thus also in Cod. Jaman.)

here means anger, not the nose, viz., the expanded nostrils (Schultens). In the is, after Pro 14:29; Pro 28:16; Pro 20:27, the governed genitive; Hitzig construes it in the sense of , Psa 19:2, with , but one does not say ; and that which is true of , that, after the manner of a numeral, it can precede its substantive ( vid., under Ps. 7:26; Psa 89:51), cannot be said of . Much (great) in wickedness denotes one who heaps up many wicked actions, and burdens himself with greater guilt (cf. , Pro 29:16). The wrathful man stirreth up ( vid., under Pro 15:18) strife, for he breaks through the mutual relations of men, which rest on mutual esteem and love, and by means of his passionate conduct he makes enemies of those against whom he thinks that he has reason for being angry; that on account of which he is angry can be settled without producing such hostility, but passion impels him on, and misrepresents the matter; it embitters hearts, and tears them asunder. The lxx has, instead of , , of dreaming, (Pro 16:27).

Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament

      22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

      See here the mischief that flows from an angry, passionate, furious disposition. 1. It makes men provoking to one another: An angry man stirs up strife, is troublesome and quarrelsome in the family and in the neighbourhood, blows the coals, and even forces those to fall out with him that would live peaceable and quietly by him. 2. It makes men provoking to God: A furious man, who is wedded to his humours and passions, cannot but abound in transgressions. Undue anger is a sin which is the cause of many sins; it not only hinders men from calling upon God’s name, but it occasions their swearing, and cursing, and profaning God’s name.

Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary

Beware of the Angry

Verse 22 affirms that a man given to anger stirs up strife and abounds in sin, see comment on Pro 15:18. Pro 22:24-25 warn against making friends with such a man lest his ways be learned and snare the soul.

Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary

(22) Aboundeth in transgression.For what will he not say and do when overcome by anger?

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

22. An angry man An irritable or passionate man makes much trouble, and causes both himself and others to transgress. Comp. Pro 15:18; Pro 26:21; Pro 28:5; Job 22:29, 33; Mat 23:12; Luk 14:11.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Pro 29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

Ver. 22. An angry man stirreth up strife. ] See Pro 15:18 ; Pro 16:21 .

And a furious man. ] Heb. A master of fury; or one that is mastered and overmatched by his fury; that hath no command of his passions, but is transported by them, or – as some make the metaphor, and the original will well bear it – is wedded to them as a man is to his wife: commanded by them, as the Persian kings were by their concubines, being captivarum suarum captivi, a slaves to their slaves. Such a man being big with wrath, not only breeds contention, but brings forth transgression in great abundance, he “sets his mouth against heaven, and his tongue walketh through the earth,” &c., Psa 73:9 he lets fly on both hands, and lays about him like a madman.

a Plutarch.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

furious man = a master or lord of wrath. Hebrew. ba’al = lord.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

Pro 29:22

Pro 29:22

“An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.”

We have already discussed the issues presented here under Pro 15:18 and Pro 22:24.

Pro 29:22. Hebrew parallelism again: angry man and wrathful man; stirreth up and aboundeth; and strife and transgression. Pro 15:8 says, A wrathful man stirreth up contention; and Pro 28:25 says, He that is of a greedy spirit stirreth up strife. One who is angry is stirred up, and this causes him to say things and to do things that stirs up strife in others. This strife is not usually a passing thing, but it causes transgression to abound, Because of this Eph 4:26 says, be ye angry, and sin not. In other words, when angry, take care that you do not sin by what you do and say. How can one keep from sinning further when angry? By taking care of oneself instead of the other fellow: Let not the sun go down upon your wrath (Eph 4:26)-get yourself under control immediately. Let us remember Jas 1:20 : The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary

angry: Pro 10:12, Pro 15:18, Pro 17:19, Pro 26:21, Pro 30:33

a furious: Pro 17:19, Pro 22:24, Jam 3:16

Reciprocal: 2Ch 25:10 – great anger Pro 3:30 – General Pro 14:17 – that Pro 16:28 – froward Pro 17:14 – beginning Pro 19:19 – man Pro 28:25 – that is Dan 2:12 – General Dan 3:13 – in his Eph 4:31 – clamour Col 3:8 – anger

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge