Proverbs 29:8

All About Life

⁷ A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge. ⁸ Scorners set a city aflame,
But wise men turn away anger.
⁹ If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.

Wise Men

Proverbs 11:11

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

Exodus 32:10-14

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

Numbers 16:48

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

Numbers 25:11

"Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.

Deuteronomy 9:18-20

Then I lay prostrate before the LORDas before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger.

2 Samuel 24:16-17

And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Proverbs 16:14

A king's wrath is a messenger of death, and a wise man will appease it.

Isaiah 28:14-22

Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the LORD said to me, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Ezekiel 22:30

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

Amos 7:2-6

When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, "O Lord GOD, please forgive! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

Matthew 27:39-43

And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads

John 9:40-41

Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

John 11:47-50

So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind

James 3:5-6

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

James 5:15-18

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.