Ecclesiastes 25:28

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Sicut urbs patens et absque murorum ambitu, ita vir qui non potest in loquendo cohibere spiritum suum.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Sicut urbs patens et absque murorum ambitu,
ita vir qui non potest in loquendo cohibere spiritum suum.]

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Urbs diruta et absque muro vir, qui non potest cohibere spiritum suum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 16:32, Proverbs 22:24, 1 Samuel 20:30, 1 Samuel 25:17

Reciprocal: Proverbs 12:16 - fool's Proverbs 14:29 - but Proverbs 19:19 - man James 1:19 - slow to wrath

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that [hath] no rule over his own spirit,.... His affections and passions, puts no restraint, unto them, as the word signifies; no guard against them, no fence about them, to curb his curiosity, to check his pride and vanity, to restrain his wrath and anger and revenge, and keep within due bounds his ambition and itch of vainglory;

[is like] a city that broken down [and] without walls; into which the may go with pleasure, and which is exposed to the rapine and violence of everyone; and so a man that has no command of himself and passions, but gives the reins to them, is exposed to the enemy of souls, Satan and is liable to every sin, snare and temptation.