Proverbs 29:8
Mockers set a city on fire, 1 but those who are wise turn away wrath. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
9When a wise person has an argument with a fool, 1 he rages and laughs, and there will be no rest. 1
Cross References
Numbers 16:48Aaron stood between the dead and the living; in this way the plague was stopped.
Deuteronomy 9:18Again I lay facedown before Yahweh for forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin that you had committed, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, so as to provoke him to anger.
Proverbs 11:11Through the good gifts of those who please God, the city becomes great; 1 by the mouth of the wicked, the city is torn down. 1
Proverbs 16:14A king's wrath is a messenger of death 1 but a wise man will try to calm his anger. 1
Jeremiah 15:1Then Yahweh said to me, “Even if Moses or Samuel were standing in front of me, I would still not be in favor of this people. Send them out from before me, for them to go away.
Amos 7:2When they finished eating the vegetation of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, please forgive; how will Jacob survive? For 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 →