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, you scornful men, that rule this people who are 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 gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many miracles.

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

Bring a city into a snare

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!

Wise

Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may grow hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of you a great nation.

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

Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, because he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which you 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 turned from the destruction, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now your hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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

And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

And it came to pass, that when they had finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

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