Proverbs 29:8
Men given to mockery, inflame a city,—but, wise men, turn away anger.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
7The righteous doth acknowledge the plea of the poor, but, the lawless, regardeth not knowledge.
9A wise man pleading with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no settlement.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48thus did he take his stand between the dead and the living,—and the plague was restrained.
Deuteronomy 9:18Then lay I prostrate before Yahweh as at the first, forty days and forty nights, food, did I not eat, and water, did I not drink,—because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing the thing that was wicked, in the eyes of Yahweh. to provoke him to anger.
Proverbs 11:11When the upright are blessed, exalted is the city, but, by the mouth of the lawless, it is overthrown.
Proverbs 16:14The wrath of a king, [meaneth] messengers of death, but, a man who is wise, will appease it.
Jeremiah 15:1Then said Yahweh unto me, Though Moses and Samuel should stand before me, My soul could not be toward this people,—Send them away from before me And let them go forth.
Amos 7:2And it came to pass, when they had made an end of eating the herbage of the land, that I said—Oh, My Lord, Yahweh, forgive, I beseech thee: By whom shall Jacob, arise? for, small, he is.
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 →