A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
⛓ Read Proverbs 15 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.' James's concern that the anger of man does not work God's righteousness resonates with the Proverbial linkage of speech and the management of anger.
Medium confidenceA soft answer turns away wrath underlies the exhortation to speak evil of no one and to be gentle, showing all humility. The sapiential ethic of gentle, non-contentious speech is the backdrop for these virtues.
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