Proverbs 29:8
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
7The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it .
9If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rageth or laugheth, there is no rest.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Deuteronomy 9:18And I 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 sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly 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 wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
Jeremiah 15:1Then said the LORD to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be towards this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Amos 7:2And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? 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… Read the whole commentary →