New King James Version
Proverbs 29:8
8Scoffers set a city aflame, But wise men 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 Living Translation (NLT)Mockers can get a whole town agitated, but the wise will calm anger.
Context of Proverbs 29:8
6By transgression an evil man is snared, But the righteous sings and rejoices. 7The righteous considers the cause of the poor, But the wicked does not understand such knowledge. Scoffers set a city aflame, But wise men turn away wrath. 9If a wise man contends with a foolish man, Whether the fool rages or laughs, there is no peace. 10The bloodthirsty hate the blameless, But the upright seek his well-being.
Read all of Proverbs 29Proverbs 29:8 word by word
אַנְשֵׁ֣י לָ֭צוֹן יָפִ֣יחוּ קִרְיָ֑ה וַ֝חֲכָמִ֗ים יָשִׁ֥יבוּ אָֽף׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 29:8
- Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, But it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
- Isaiah 28:14Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
- Matthew 27:39And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads
- John 9:40Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, “Are we blind also?”
- John 11:47Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What shall we do? For this Man works many signs.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men,
- James 3:5Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!
- Exodus 32:10Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.”
- Numbers 16:48And he stood between the dead and the living; so the plague was stopped.
- Numbers 25:11“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal.
- 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 sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.
- 2 Samuel 24:16And when the angel stretched out His hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the destruction, and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “It is enough; now restrain your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
- Jeremiah 15:1Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My mind would not be favorable toward this people. Cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.
- Ezekiel 22:30So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
- Amos 7:2And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said: “O Lord God, forgive, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!”
- James 5:15And the prayer of faith will save the 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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