John Trapp on Proverbs 25:8

Verſ. 8. Goe not forth haſtily to ſtrive] Contention is the Daughter of Arrogance and Ambition, Jam. 4.1. Hence Salomon (whoſe very name imports peace) perſwades to peaceableneſſe very oft in this Book; and ſets forth the miſchief or ſtrife and diſſention. Stir not ſtrife (ſaith he) but make haſte to ſtint it, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Heredot. (ſo the words may be rendred) you may doe that in your haſte that you may repent by leaſure. Haſty men, wee ſay, never want woe. If every man were a law to himſelf (as the Thracians are ſaid to be) there would not bee ſo much lawing, warbling and warring as there is. There is a curſe upon thoſe that delight in War, (as King Pyrrhus did) Pſal. 68.30. but a bleſſing for all the children of peace, Mat. 10. who ſhall alſo bee called the Children of God, Mat. 5. Paul and Barnabas had a ſharp, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. but ſhort fit of falling out, Acts 15.39. Hierom and Auſtine had their bickerings in their Diſputations, but it was no great matter who gained the day; for they would both win by underſtanding their errours.

When thy Neighbour hath put thee to ſhame] That is, when thine Adverſary hath got the upper hand, and foyled thee. Thoſe are ignoble quarrels, ſaith one, Ʋbi vincere inglorium eſt, atteri ſordidum; wherein whether a man get the better or the worſe, he is ſure to go by the worſe, to ſit down with loſs in his name, ſtate, or both.