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Proverbs 19:19

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19If someone has a hot temper, let him take the consequences. If you get him out of trouble once, you will have to do it again.i

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  1. iget him out … again; or try to get him out of trouble, you only make things worse.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

A man of great wrath will pay the penalty,

for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

A hot-tempered person must pay the penalty;

rescue them, and you will have to do it again.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

A person with intense anger bears the penalty;

if you rescue him, you’ll have to do it again.

NLTNew Living Translation

Hot-tempered people must pay the penalty.

If you rescue them once, you will have to do it again.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

A hot-tempered person pays a penalty;

if you rescue him, you will do it yet again.

KJV 1900King James Version

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment:

For if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.