Proverbs 29:8
Scornful men will kindle [confusion] in a town; but the wise turn away wrath.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
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 threw myself down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; bread did I not eat, and water did I not drink; on account of all your sins which ye had committed, in doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
Proverbs 11:11Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted; but through the mouth of the wicked it is pulled down.
Proverbs 16:14The fury of a king is like the messengers of death; but a wise man will appease it.
Jeremiah 15:1And the Lord said unto me, If Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my favor would [still] not be toward this people: send them away out of my sight, that they may go forth.
Amos 7:2And it came to pass, when they had made an end of eating up the herbs of the earth, that I said, O Lord Eternal, forgive, I beseech thee: how should Jacob be able to endure, 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 →