1. As we read this, it intimates, in short, that angry men never want
woe. Those that are of strong, or rather headstrong, passions, commonly
bring themselves and their families into trouble by vexatious suits and
quarrels and the provocations they give; they are still smarting, in
one instance or other, for their ungoverned heats; and, if their
friends deliver them out of one trouble, they will quickly involve
themselves in another, and they must do it again, all which troubles to
themselves and others would be prevented if they would mortify their
passions and get the rule of their own spirits. 2. It may as well be
read, He that is of great wrath (meaning the child that is to be
corrected and is impatient of rebuke, cries and makes a noise, even
that wrath of his against the rod of correction) deserves to be
punished; for, if thou deliver him for the sake of that, thou wilt be
forced to punish him so much the more next time. A stomachful
high-spirited child must be subdued betimes, or it will be the worse
for it.