New Revised Standard Version
A fool gives full vent to anger, but the wise quietly holds it back.

Contemporary English Version
Don't be a fool and quickly lose your temper--be sensible and patient.

New American Bible
Fools give vent to all their anger; but the wise, biding their time, control it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A fool uttereth all his mind: a wise man deferreth, and keepeth it till afterwards.

A fool uttereth all his mind: a wise man deferreth, and keepeth it till afterwards.

Proverbs 12:16,23 A fool immediately sheweth his anger: but he that dissembleth injuries is wise. . . .

Proverbs 14:33 In the heart of the prudent resteth wisdom, and it shall instruct all the ignorant.

Judges 16:17 Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, consecrated to God from my mother's womb: If my head be shaven, my strength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like other men.

Amos 5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.

Micah 7:5 Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that sleepeth in thy bosom.