Proverbs 29:8
Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise men turn away wrath.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
7The just taketh notice of the cause of the poor: the wicked is void of knowledge.
9If a wise man contend with a fool, whether he be angry or laugh, he shall find no rest.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the plague ceased.
Deuteronomy 9:18And I fell down before the Lord se before, forty days and nights neither eating bread, nor drinking water, for all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and had provoked him to wrath:
Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the just the city shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the wicked it shall be overthrown.
Proverbs 16:14The wrath of a king is as messengers of death : and the wise man will pacify it.
Jeremiah 15:1And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and let them go forth.
Amos 7:2And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, I said: O Lord God, be merciful, I beseech thee: who shall raise up Jacob, for he is very 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 →