Proverbs 29:8
Cynical people can inflame a whole city, but the wise calm angry people down.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
7Good people care about treating the poor fairly, but the wicked don't think about it at all.
9When a wise man takes a stupid man to court, there's raging and ridicule, but nothing is settled.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48He stood between those who had died and those who were still alive, and the plague was stopped.
Deuteronomy 9:18Then I lay down on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights, just as I had before. I didn't eat or drink anything because of all the sins you had committed by doing what was evil in the Lord's sight, making him angry.
Proverbs 11:11Ethical people are a blessing to a town, but what the wicked say destroys it.
Proverbs 16:14An angry king can put you to death. If you're wise you'll try and calm him down.
Jeremiah 15:1The Lord told me: Even if Moses and Samuel were standing before me pleading with me on behalf of these people, I wouldn't feel sorry for them. Send them away from me. Have them leave.
Amos 7:2And so when the locusts finished eating every green plant in the fields, I pleaded with the Lord God, “Please forgive your people! How can the descendants of Jacob survive? They are so weak.”
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 →