Proverbs 29:8
Scornefull men bring a citie into a snare: but wise men turne away wrath.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
7The righteous knoweth the cause of the poore: but the wicked regardeth not knowledge.
9If a wise man contend with a foolish man, whether he be angry or laugh, there is no rest.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48And when hee stoode betweene the dead, and them that were aliue, the plague was stayed.
Deuteronomy 9:18And I fell downe before the Lord, fourtie dayes, and fourtie nightes, as before: I neither ate bread nor dranke water, because of al your sinnes, which ye had committed, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, in that ye prouoked him vnto wrath.
Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the righteous, the citie is exalted: but it is subuerted by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 16:14The wrath of a King is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacifie it.
Jeremiah 15:1Then sayde the Lord vnto me, Though Moses and Samuel stoode before mee, yet mine affection coulde not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them depart.
Amos 7:2And when they had made an ende of eating the grasse of the land, then I saide, O Lord God, spare, I beseeche thee: who shall raise vp Iaakob? 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 →