He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
⛓ Read Proverbs 14 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.' James's 'slow to anger,' with the claim that human anger does not produce God's righteousness, restates this Proverb's praise of restrained wrath.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly' coheres with love that 'is not provoked' (ou paroxynetai). The wisdom valorization of slow anger against quick temper supports Paul's portrait, though without specific verbal contact.
Low confidence