Proverbs 29:8
Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
7The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.
9If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Deuteronomy 9:18I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 16:14The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
Jeremiah 15:1Then the LORD said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
Amos 7:2When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? 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 →