Proverbs 29:8

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Summary

Proverbs 29:8

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

Scornful

Bring a city into a snare

James 3:5

Wise

Bible References

Scornful

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

Therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that have taken rule over this people which is in Jerusalem.

And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads

And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words and said unto him, Are we blind also?

Then the high priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What shall we do? for this man does many signs.

who 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,

Bring a city into a snare

In the same manner, the tongue is a very small member and boasts of great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!

Wise

Now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot in them and consume them; and I will put thee over a great nation.

And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the sons of Israel, being zealous for my sake among them, therefore I did not consume the sons of Israel in my jealousy.

And 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 sins in which ye sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD himself repented of that evil and said to the angel that was destroying the people, It is enough; stay now thy hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingfloor of Araunah, the Jebusite.

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

And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it, but I found no one.

And it came to pass that when they had come to an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee; who shall lift up Jacob? for he is small.

and the prayer of faith shall cause the one who is sick to be saved, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, he shall be forgiven them.