Devine Scripture

Proverbs 29:8

Proverbs chapter 29 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.7The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know it.

v.8This passage

v.9If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Numbers 25:11

    Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

  • Matthew 27:39

    And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads,

  • Ezekiel 22:30

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

  • Exodus 32:10

    now 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.

  • 2 Samuel 24:16

    And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • James 3:5

    So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!