Proverbs 29:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Scornful men bring a city into a snare: But wise men turn away wrath.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Scoffers set a city afire [inflaming the minds of the people], but wise men turn away wrath.

American Standard Version (1901)

Scoffers set a city in a flame; But wise men turn away wrath.

Common English Bible

Mockers set a city on fire, but the wise turn back anger.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Pestilent men squander a city. Yet truly, the wise avert fury.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise men turn away wrath.

Proverbs 29:8 Cross References

Proverbs 11:11

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

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 16:14

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

Proverbs 29:9

If the wise go to law with fools, there is ranting and ridicule without relief.

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 anyone among them who would repair the wall and stand in the breach before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.

Numbers 16:48

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

Numbers 25:11

“Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the Israelites by manifesting such zeal among them on my behalf that in my jealousy I did not consume the Israelites.