Proverbs 29:8

All About Life

⁷ The righteous knows the plea of the poor; the wicked cares not to know it. ⁸ Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but the wise turn away wrath. ⁹ If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rages or laughs, there is no rest.

Wise Men

Proverbs 11:11

By the blessing of the upright the city is lifted up, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

Exodus 32:10-14

And now leave Me alone, so that My wrath may become hot against them and so that I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.

Numbers 16:48

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

Numbers 25:11

Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the sons of Israel while he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy.

Deuteronomy 9:18-20

And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sins which you sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of Jehovah to provoke Him to anger.

2 Samuel 24:16-17

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah turned from the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, Enough! And stay your hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite.

Proverbs 16:14

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death, but a wise man will quiet it.

Isaiah 28:14-22

Therefore hear the Word of Jehovah, scornful men who rule this people in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then Jehovah said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul could not be toward this people. Send them out of My sight, and let them go out.

Ezekiel 22:30

And I sought for a man among them who should wall up a wall for the land, and stand in the break before me, that I should not destroy it. But I did not find one.

Amos 7:2-6

And it happened when it had made an end of eating the tender plant of the land, then I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I pray You. How can Jacob stand? For he is small.

Matthew 27:39-43

And those who passed by blasphemed Him, shaking their heads,

John 9:40-41

And those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, Are we also blind?

John 11:47-50

Then the chief priests and Pharisees gathered a sanhedrin, and said, What can we do? For this man does many miracles.

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men,

James 3:5-6

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

James 5:15-18

And the prayer of faith will cure the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. And if he has committed sins, it will be forgiven him.