⁷ The righteous person cares for the legal rights of the poor; the wicked does not understand such knowledge. ⁸ Scornful people inflame a city, but those who are wise turn away wrath. ⁹ If a wise person goes to court with a foolish person, there is no peace whether he is angry or laughs.

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Wise Men

Cross References

Proverbs 11:11

A city is exalted by the blessing provided from the upright, but it is destroyed by the counsel of the wicked.

Exodus 32:10-14

So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation."

Numbers 16:48

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

Numbers 25:11

"Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, when he manifested such zeal for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in my zeal.

Deuteronomy 9:18-20

Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.

2 Samuel 24:16-17

When the angel extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment. He told the angel who was killing the people, "That's enough! Stop now!" (Now the Lord's angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)

Proverbs 16:14

A king's wrath is like a messenger of death, but a wise person appeases it.

Isaiah 28:14-22

Therefore, listen to the Lord's word, you who mock, you rulers of these people who reside in Jerusalem!

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!

Ezekiel 22:30

"I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.

Amos 7:2-6

When they had completely consumed the earth's vegetation, I said, "Sovereign Lord, forgive Israel! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!"

Matthew 27:39-43

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads

John 9:40-41

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, "We are not blind too, are we?"

John 11:47-50

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

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,

James 3:5-6

So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

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.

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