Proverbs 29:8
Men of scorning ensnare a city, || And the wise turn back anger.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
7The righteous knows the plea of the poor, || The wicked does not understand knowledge.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48and stands between the dead and the living, and the plague is restrained;
Deuteronomy 9:18and I throw myself before YHWH, as at first, [for] forty days and forty nights; I have not eaten bread and I have not drunk water, because of all your sins which you have sinned by doing evil in the eyes of YHWH, to make Him angry.
Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the upright is a city exalted, || And by the mouth of the wicked thrown down.
Proverbs 16:14The fury of a king [is] messengers of death, || And a wise man pacifies it.
Jeremiah 15:1And YHWH says to me: “Though Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, || My soul is not toward this people, || Send from before My face, and they go out.
Amos 7:2and it has come to pass, when it has finished to consume the herb of the land, that I say, “Lord YHWH, please forgive, || How does Jacob arise—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 →