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Proverbs 6:15

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6:15 Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly;

in an instant 1  he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

Proverbs 25:28

Context

25:28 Like a city that is broken down and without a wall,

so is a person who cannot control his temper. 2 

1 tn This word is a substantive that is used here as an adverbial accusative – with suddenness, at an instant.

2 tn Heb “whose spirit lacks restraint” (ASV similar). A person whose spirit (רוּחַ, ruakh) “lacks restraint” is one who is given to outbursts of passion, who lacks self-control (cf. NIV, NRSV, CEV, NLT). This person has no natural defenses but reveals his true nature all the time. The proverb is stating that without self-control a person is vulnerable, like a city without defenses.



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