Proverbs 29:8
Mockers stir up a city,but wise men turn away anger.
New Heart English 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 sight of the Lord, 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 be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Amos 7:2It happened that, when they made an end of 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 →