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 Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
• Prov 16:14The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
• Jas 3:5–6So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
• Jas 5:15–18and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
• Num 25:11“Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
• Ezek 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 no one.
• Isa 28:14–22Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:
• Matt 27:39–43Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
• 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;
• Amos 7:2–6When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
• Exod 32:10–14Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”
• Deut 9:18–20I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
• John 11:47–50The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
• 2 Sam 24:16–17When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
• John 9:40–41Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
• Num 16:48He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

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