Proverbs 29:8
Pestilent men squander a city. Yet truly, the wise avert fury.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
7The just knows the case of the poor. The impious is ignorant of knowledge.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the scourge ceased.
Deuteronomy 9:18And I fell prostrate before the Lord, just as before, for forty days and nights, not eating bread, and not drinking water, because of all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and because you provoked him to anger.
Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the just, the city shall be exalted. And by the mouth of the impious, it will be subverted.
Proverbs 16:14The indignation of a king is a herald of death. And the wise man will appease it.
Jeremiah 15:1And the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my soul would not be toward this people. Cast them away from my face, and let them depart!
Amos 7:2And it happened, when they had finally eaten all the grass in the land, that I said, “Lord God, be gracious, I beg you. Who will raise up Jacob, for he is little?”
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 →