Proverbs 29:8
Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
7The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
9If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.
Deuteronomy 9:18Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the upright a city is built up, but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.
Proverbs 16:14The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
Jeremiah 15:1Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.
Amos 7:2And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so 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 →