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 shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the unjust it shall be overthrown.

For this, hear ye the word of Jehovah, ye men of scorn, ruling this people which is in Jerusalem.

And they coming near, blasphemed him, shaking their heads,

And they being with him of the Pharisees heard these things, and said to him,

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

They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men;

Bring a city into a snare

So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames

Wise

And thou be at rest to me, and my wrath shall kindle against them, and I will consume them: and I will make thee into a great nation.

And he will stand between the dead and between the living; and the smiting will be withheld.

Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, turned back my wrath from the sons of Israel, in his being jealous with my jealousy in the midst of you, and I consumed not the sons of Israel, in my jealousy.

And I shall fall down before Jehovah as at the first; forty days and forty nights I ate not bread and I drank not water on account of all your sins that ye sinned to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah to provoke him

And the messenger will stretch forth his hand to destroy Jerusalem, and Jehovah will lament for the evil, and he will say to the messenger destroying among the people, Much now: let go thy hand. And the messenger of Jehovah was near the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

And Jehovah will say to me, If Moses shall stand, and Samuel, before my face, my soul not to this people: casting from my face they shall go forth.

And I sought from them a man to wall in the wall, and to stand in the breach before my face for the land, not to destroy it: and I found not

And it was if he finished to devour the green herb of the land, and saying, O Lord Jehovah, forgive now: who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small.

And the prayer of faith shall save him being sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he should have wrought sins, it shall be remitted to him.