11 (A)The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger,
(B)And his glory is to overlook a transgression.

12 (C)The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion,
But his favor is (D)like dew on the grass.

13 (E)A foolish son is the ruin of his father,
(F)And the contentions of a wife are a continual [a]dripping.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:13 Irritation

11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

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