Matthew Henry · Verse 11
He attains the most true glory who endeavours most steadily to overcome evil with good.
Proverbs 19:11
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
World English Bible
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WEBBE
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offence.
BSB
A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.
KJV
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
ASV
The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger; And it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
BBE
A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.
Original Hebrew
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