Proverbs 29:8
Lawless men burn down a city: but wise men turn away wrath.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
9A wise man shall judge nations: but a worthless man being angry laughs and fears not.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague ceased.
Deuteronomy 9:18And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which you⌃ sinned in doing evil before the Lord God to provoke him.
Proverbs 11:11+ 11:11 there is no verse 11, but the Alexandrine text reads. At the blessing of the upright a city shall be exalted.
Proverbs 16:14The anger of a king is a messenger of death; but a wise man will pacify him.
Jeremiah 15:1And the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before my face, my soul could not be toward them: dismiss this people, and let them go forth.
Amos 7:2And it came to pass when he had finished devouring the grass of the land, that I said, Lord God, be merciful; who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number.
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 →