John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirreth up strife ,.... In families, neighbourhoods, communities, churches, and commonwealths; that is, one that is given to anger, and gives way to it, in whom it prevails and rules; and a furious man aboundeth in transgression ; or, "a master of wrath or fury" F25 בעל חמה "dominus furoris", so Vatablus, Piscator, Michaelis. ; one much addicted to it: or, "the husband of wrath": wedded to it, as a man to his wife: or, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "who... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 29:22
See here the mischief that flows from an angry, passionate, furious disposition. 1. It makes men provoking to one another: An angry man stirs up strife, is troublesome and quarrelsome in the family and in the neighbourhood, blows the coals, and even forces those to fall out with him that would live peaceable and quietly by him. 2. It makes men provoking to God: A furious man, who is wedded to his humours and passions, cannot but abound in transgressions. Undue anger is a sin which is the cause... read more