Proverbs 29:8

All About Life

⁷ [The] righteous knows [the] case of the poor, but [the] wicked does not understand knowledge. ⁸ Men of scoffing set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath. ⁹ [If] a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, then there is rankling and ridicule, but there is no relief.

Wise Men

Proverbs 11:11

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

Exodus 32:10-14

And now leave me [alone] so that {my anger may blaze} against them, and let me destroy them, and I will make you into a great nation."

Numbers 16:48

He stood between the dead and between the living, and the plague was stopped.

Numbers 25:11

"Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, turned away my anger from among the {Israelites} when he was jealous with my jealousy in their midst, and I did not destroy the {Israelites} with my jealousy.

Deuteronomy 9:18-20

And [then] I lay prostrate {before} Yahweh, as earlier, forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food and I did not drink water because of all your sins that you committed, by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh [and so] provoking him.

2 Samuel 24:16-17

When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, Yahweh regretted about the evil, and he said to the angel who brought destruction among the people, "Enough, now relax your hand." Now the angel of Yahweh [was] at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Proverbs 16:14

The wrath of a king [is] a messenger of death, but one who is wise will appease it.

Isaiah 28:14-22

Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, men of mockery, rulers of these people in Jerusalem:

Jeremiah 15:1

Then Yahweh said to me, "[Even] if Moses and Samuel stood {before me}, my heart [would] not [be] to this people. Send [them] away from my {sight}, and let them go out.

Ezekiel 22:30

And [so] I sought for them somebody, one repairing [the] wall and standing in the breach {before me} on behalf of the land not to destroy it, but I did not find [anyone],

Amos 7:2-6

And then when they finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, "O Lord Yahweh, please forgive! How can Jacob stand, because he [is] small?"

Matthew 27:39-43

And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads

John 9:40-41

[Some] of the Pharisees who were with him heard these [things] and said to him, "We are not also blind, [are we]?"

John 11:47-50

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and who persecuted us, and [who are] not pleasing to God and [are] opposed to all people,

James 3:5-6

So also the tongue is a small member [of the body] and boasts great [things]. Behold how small a fire sets ablaze how great a forest!

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}.