Proverbs 29:8

In 11 translations

BSB

Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.

KJV

Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.bring…: or, set a city on fire

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Men of scorning ensnare a city, || And the wise turn back anger.

YLT

Men of scorning ensnare a city, And the wise turn back anger.

DBY

Scornful men set the city in a flame; but the wise turn away anger.

DRC

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

GNV

Scornefull men bring a citie into a snare: but wise men turne away wrath.

JPS

Scornful men set a city in a blaze; but wise men turn away wrath.

LXXE

Lawless men burn down a city: but wise men turn away wrath.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אַנְשֵׁ֣י לָ֭צוֹן יָפִ֣יחוּ קִרְיָ֑ה וַ֝חֲכָמִ֗ים יָשִׁ֥יבוּ אָֽף׃

LXX-Br

Ἄνδρες ἄνομοι ἐξέκαυσαν πόλιν, σοφοὶ δὲ ἀπέστρεψαν ὀργήν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the upright a city is built up, but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.
• Jeremiah 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.
• Proverbs 16:14The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
• James 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. The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the…
• James 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. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be…
• Isaiah 28:14–22Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem. For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes…
• Matthew 27:39–43And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”…
• 1 Thessalonians 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, hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they…
• Numbers 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.
• Ezekiel 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.
• 2 Samuel 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…
• Deuteronomy 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…
• 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. If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come…
• 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?” So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said. This…
• John 9:40–41Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?” “If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”
• Numbers 16:48He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.

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