Proverbs 29:8
Men of pride are the cause of violent acts in a town, but by wise men wrath is turned away.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
7The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.
Deuteronomy 9:18And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.
Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the upright man the town is made great, but it is overturned by the mouth of the evil-doer.
Proverbs 16:14The wrath of the king is like those who give news of death, but a wise man will put peace in place of it.
Jeremiah 15:1Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.
Amos 7:2And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? 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 →