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 the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
• Jer 15:1Then 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.
• Prov 16:14The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
• Jas 3:5–6Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
• Jas 5:15–18And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
• Num 25:11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, 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.
• Ezek 22:30And 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.
• Isa 28:14–22Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
• Matt 27:39–43And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
• 1 Th 2:15–16Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
• Amos 7:2–6And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
• Exod 32:10–14Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
• Deut 9:18–20And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
• John 11:47–50Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
• 2 Sam 24:16–17And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
• John 9:40–41And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
• Num 16:48And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

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