Proverbs 29:8
Scornful men set a city in a blaze; but wise men turn away wrath.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 foolish man, whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48(17-13) And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Deuteronomy 9:18And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him.
Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted; but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 16:14The wrath of a king is as messengers of death; but a wise man will pacify it.
Jeremiah 15:1Then said the LORD unto me: 'Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind could not be toward this people; cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.
Amos 7:2And if it had come to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land — so I said: O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech Thee; how shall Jacob stand? 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 →