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 Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;

Bring a city into a snare

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

Wise

Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

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 children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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

I sought for a man among them, who 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.

It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.