Proverbs 29:8 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

⁸ Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Scornful men bring a city into a snare: But wise men turn away wrath.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Scoffers set a city afire [inflaming the minds of the people], but wise men turn away wrath.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Scoffers set a city in a flame; But wise men turn away wrath.

Common English Bible

⁸ Mockers set a city on fire, but the wise turn back anger.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Pestilent men squander a city. Yet truly, the wise avert fury.

Proverbs 29:8 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 11:11

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

Proverbs 15:1

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

Proverbs 16:14

The king's wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no shalom.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then said the LORD to me, Though Moshe and Shemu'el stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

Ezekiel 22:30

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

Numbers 16:48

He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

Numbers 25:11

Pinechas, the son of El`azar, the son of Aharon the Kohen, has turned my wrath away from the children of Yisra'el, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Yisra'el in my jealousy.