Proverbs 29:8
Those who make fun of everything that is good say things that cause everyone in the city to ◄be agitated/in turmoil►; those who are wise enable people to remain calm.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 16:48He stood between the people who had already died and those who were still alive, and then the plague stopped.
Deuteronomy 9:18Then I ◄prostrated myself/lay► on the ground in Yahweh’s presence as I had done before, and I did not eat or drink anything for 40 days and nights. I did that because your ancestors had sinned against Yahweh and caused him to become very angry.
Proverbs 11:11When righteous people request God to bless a city, that city will become great, but cities are ruined by what wicked people say [MTY].
Proverbs 16:14If a king becomes angry, he may command that someone be executed, so wise people will try to cause him to be calm.
Jeremiah 15:1Then Yahweh said this to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel could come back from their graves and and stand in front of me and plead with me for these Israeli people, I would not act mercifully [IDM] toward these people. I would tell you, ‘Send them away from me. Cause them to leave me!’
Amos 7:2And in the vision I saw those locusts come, and they ate everything that was green. Then I cried out, “Yahweh our Lord, please forgive us! We Israeli people are very helpless; ◄how will we be able to survive [RHQ]?/we will not be able to survive!►”
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 →