Proverbs 29:8

¶ Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise [men] turn away wrath.

Scornful {H3944} men {H582} bring {H6315} a city {H7151} into a snare {H6315}: but wise {H2450} men turn away {H7725} wrath {H639}.

Scoffers can inflame a city, but the wise can calm the fury.

Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.

Scoffers set a city in a flame; But wise men turn away wrath.

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Cross-References

  • Proverbs 11:11 (6 votes)

    By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

  • Jeremiah 15:1 (4 votes)

    ¶ Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.

  • James 3:5 (3 votes)

    Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

  • James 3:6 (3 votes)

    And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

  • Proverbs 16:14 (3 votes)

    ¶ The wrath of a king [is as] messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

  • James 5:15 (2 votes)

    And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

  • James 5:18 (2 votes)

    And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.