Proverbs 11:11

By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted,
But by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.

Proverbs 29:8

Scorners set a city aflame,
But wise men turn away anger.

Genesis 41:38-42

Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is a divine spirit?”

Genesis 45:8

Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Now a worthless fellow happened to be there whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet and said,
“We have no portion in David,
Nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse;
Every man to his tents, O Israel!”

2 Chronicles 32:20-22

But King Hezekiah and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed about this and cried out to heaven.

Esther 3:8-15

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king’s laws, so it is not in the king’s interest to let them remain.

Esther 9:1-16

Now in the twelfth month (that is, the month Adar), on the thirteenth day when the king’s command and edict were about to be executed, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, it was turned to the contrary so that the Jews themselves gained the mastery over those who hated them.

Job 22:30

“He will deliver one who is not innocent,
And he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness exalts a nation,
But sin is a disgrace to any people.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

But there was found in it a poor wise man and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.

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Proverbs 11:11

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

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Ecclesiastes 9:15

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