“One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 16 contains 33 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.