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Pro_12:16 A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent [man] covereth shame.
Ver. 16. A fool’s wrath is presently known.] He hath no power over his passions. Hence ôúé , a fool, and ôúàí , suddenly, rashly, are from the same root. Like tow, he is soon kindled; like a pot, he soon boils; and like a candle whose tallow is mixed with brine, as soon as lighted he spits up and down the room. A fool uttereth all his mind. {Pro_29:11} The Septuagint render it, All his anger - èõìïí . For, as the Hebrews well note in a proverb they have, A man’s mind is soon discovered, bekis, bekos, becoynos; - in loculis, in poculis, in ira; - in his purse, in his drink, in his anger. See my "Common Place of Anger."
But a wise man covereth shame.] By concealing his wrath, or rather by suppressing it when it would break forth to his disgrace, or the just grief of another. Ut fragilis glacies, occidit ira mora. {a} This was Saul’s wisdom; {1Sa_10:27} and Jonathan’s, when, incensed by his father’s frowardness, he went shooting; {1Sa_20:35} and Ahasuerus, when in a rage against Haman, he walked into the garden. The philosopher wished Augustus, when angry, to say over the Greek alphabet; Ambrose desired an angel’s authority; {Gal_1:8} Theodosius to repeat the Lord’s Prayer before he decreed anything.
{a} Ovid.