Proverbs 29:8

Mockers inflame a community, but the wise calm hostility. It contrasts the destructive influence of scoffers with the peacemaking of the wise.

Cross-references · 17

• Prov 11:11By the blessing of the upright a city is built up, but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.
• Jer 15:1Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.
• Prov 16:14The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
• Jas 3:5–6In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
• Jas 5:15–18And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
• Num 25:11“Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.
• Ezek 22:30I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.
• Isa 28:14–22Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
• Matt 27:39–43And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads
• 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
• Amos 7:2–6And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
• Exod 32:10–14Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
• Deut 9:18–20Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
• John 11:47–50Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
• 2 Sam 24:16–17But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
• John 9:40–41Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”
• Num 16:48He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.

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