New English Translation
Proverbs 29:8
8Scornful people inflame a city, but those who are wise turn away wrath.
Proverbs 29:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
- New International Version (NIV)Mockers stir up a city, but the wise turn away anger.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Scoffers set a city aflame, But wise men turn away wrath.
Context of Proverbs 29:8
6In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare, but a righteous person can sing and rejoice. 7The righteous person cares for the legal rights of the poor; the wicked does not understand such knowledge. Scornful people inflame a city, but those who are wise turn away wrath. 9If a wise person goes to court with a foolish person, there is no peace whether he is angry or laughs. 10Bloodthirsty people hate someone with integrity; as for the upright, they seek his life.
Read all of Proverbs 29Proverbs 29:8 word by word
אַנְשֵׁ֣י לָ֭צוֹן יָפִ֣יחוּ קִרְיָ֑ה וַ֝חֲכָמִ֗ים יָשִׁ֥יבוּ אָֽף׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 29:8
- Proverbs 11:11A city is exalted by the blessing provided from the upright, but it is destroyed by the counsel of the wicked.
- Isaiah 28:14Therefore, listen to the Lord’s word, you who mock, you rulers of these people who reside in Jerusalem!
- Matthew 27:39Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads
- John 9:40Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”
- John 11:47So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,
- James 3:5So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.
- Exodus 32:10So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”
- Numbers 16:48He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.
- Numbers 25:11“Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, when he manifested such zeal for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in my zeal.
- Deuteronomy 9:18Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.
- 2 Samuel 24:16When the angel extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment. He told the angel who was killing the people, “That’s enough! Stop now!” (Now the Lord’s angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)
- Jeremiah 15:1Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!
- Ezekiel 22:30“I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.
- Amos 7:2When they had completely consumed the earth’s vegetation, I said, “Sovereign Lord, forgive Israel! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!”
- James 5:15And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up – and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Commentaries on Proverbs 29:8
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Scornful men - The men who head political or religious revolutions, who inflame (literally as in the margin) the minds of the people against the powers that be.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8Verse 8 The scornful mock at things sacred and serious. Men who promote religion, which is true wisdom, turn away the wrath of God.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Scornful men--those who contemptuously disregard God's law. bring--(Compare Margin), kindle strife. turn away wrath--that is, "abate wrath."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 29
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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