Proverbs 29:8
Scornful men set the city in a flame; but the wise turn away anger.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
7The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; the wicked understandeth not knowledge.
9If a wise man contendeth with a fool, whether he rage or laugh, [he] hath no rest.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Deuteronomy 9:18And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, 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 fury of a king is [as] messengers of death; but a wise man will pacify it.
Jeremiah 15:1And Jehovah said unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, my soul [would] not [turn] toward this people. Send [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Amos 7:2And it came to pass, when they had wholly eaten the grass of the land, that I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob arise? 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 →