Proverbs 29:8 - King James Version - American Edition

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise men turn away wrath.

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 soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Proverbs 16:14

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

Ezekiel 22:30

And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

Numbers 16:48

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

Numbers 25:11

Phin´ehas, the son of Ele-a´zar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.