Verse 19
An uncontrolled temper will repeatedly send its owner into fresh trouble. The implication is that it is futile to bail such a person out of the trouble he gets himself into with his temper.
"Whereas the son is corrected by parental discipline, the hothead must be corrected by allowing the consequences of his own foibles to punish him. The wise father does not interfere in the operation of the cause-consequence of the divinely established penal and remedial moral order. Ironically, the person who ’rescues’ the hothead becomes caught in the unhealthy dynamics of his way." [Note: Waltke, The Book . . . 31, p. 113.]
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