Proverbs 29:8
Men full of pestilence destroy a city; but wise men turn away strong vengeance.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
In Context
9If a wise man striveth with a fool, whether he be wroth, or laugh, he shall not find rest.
Cross References
Numbers 16:48and he stood betwixt the dead men and the living, and he prayed for the people, and the vengeance ceased. (and he stood there among the living and the dead, and made amends for the people, and then the plague ceased.)
Deuteronomy 9:18And I felled down before the Lord as before, in forty days and forty nights, and I ate not bread, and drank not water, for all your sins which ye did against the Lord, and stirred him to great wrath; (And I fell down before the Lord as I did before, for forty days and forty nights, and I ate no bread, and drank no water, for all your sins which ye did against the Lord, and so had stirred him to such great anger;)
Proverbs 11:11A city shall be enhanced by [the] blessing of just men; and it shall be destroyed by the mouth of wicked men. (A city shall be enhanced by the blessing of the righteous; and it shall be destroyed by the words of the wicked.)
Proverbs 16:14[The] Indignation of the king is (like) messengers of death; and a wise man shall please him (or but a wise person shall please him).
Jeremiah 15:1And the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, (yet) my soul is not to (ward) this people; cast thou them out from my face, and go they out.
Amos 7:2And it was done, when he had ended for to eat the herb of (the) earth, I said, Lord God, I beseech, be thou merciful; who shall raise Jacob, for he is little? (And it was done, when the locusts had finished eating the herbs of the earth, I said, Lord God, I beseech thee, be thou merciful; who shall raise up Jacob, for he is so small? or for they be so weak?)
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 →