Proverbs 29:8
Scoffers set a city in a flame, but wise men turn away wrath.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 16:48And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.
Deuteronomy 9:18And I fell down before LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 16:14The wrath of a king is messengers of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
Jeremiah 15:1Then LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Amos 7:2And it came to pass that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O lord LORD, forgive, I beseech thee. How shall Jacob stand, for he is small?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:8
7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it. It is a pity but that every one who sues sub formâ pauperis — as a pauper, should have an honest cause (they are of all others inexcusable if they have not), because the scripture has so well provided that it should have a fair hearing, and that the judge himself should be of counsel, as for the prisoner, so for the pauper. 1. It is here made the character of a righteous judge that he considers the cause of the poor. It is… Read the whole commentary →