The Angry Man

Proverbs 29:22

“An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.” 

A vengeful, hateful, angry man is a godless man; and a godless man is a fool.

The ill-tempered angry man is a dangerous man. His heart is a bottomless well of wickedness and abomination. His tongue reeks of poison: its language is obnoxious, toxic, nauseating. His mouth is a sewer of blasphemies and slander; it is the abode of ten thousand demons; it spews boiling lava and acid and venom.

The unregenerated angry man hates God, and hates Christianity to the core. He does not know what love is; all he knows is his selfish, puffed up pride. He is unrepentant of his sins; on the contrary, he justifies them. His vicious temper hurts his loved ones and alienates him from his friends.

The  incessantly and unreasonably angry man lives in chaos. He may deny the internal upheaval and mental torment besetting him, but he will never find true peace. He will die alone and lonely, and worse, he has inflicted upon himself the judgment and eternal wrath of God.

“The angry man is like gunpowder. No sooner do you touch him but he is all on fire. Seneca calls anger 'a short fit of madness'.” ~Thomas Watson

“When temper is allowed to have its way, we are reverting to the savage. In the Middle Ages the aid of art was resorted to sometimes in order to impress the truth about the Seven Deadly Sins; and anger was represented as a figure riding on a camel, the most vicious of all animals, while on the shield which it carried was painted a mad dog.” ~James Stalker

Proverbs 22:24

“Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:”

Proverbs 15:18

“A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.”