Proverbs 29:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Prov 11:11 : 11 By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, But it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
  • Prov 16:14 : 14 The king's wrath is a messenger of death, But a wise man will pacify it.
  • Isa 28:14-22 : 14 Why hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -[stone] of sure foundation: he who believes shall not be in haste. 17 I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place. 18 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. 19 As often as it passes though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nothing but terror to understand the message. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim, he will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act. 22 Now therefore don't you be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, on the whole earth.
  • Jer 15:1 : 1 Then said Yahweh 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 forth.
  • Ezek 22:30 : 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 none.
  • Amos 7:2-6 : 2 It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small." 3 Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh. 4 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and, behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land. 5 Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small." 6 Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Matt 27:39-43 : 39 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, 40 and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" 41 Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees,{TR omits "the Pharisees"} and the elders, said, 42 "He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"
  • John 9:40-41 : 40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?" 41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
  • John 11:47-50 : 47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs. 48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation." 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all, 50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."
  • 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men; 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
  • Jas 3:5-6 : 5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! 6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.{Gehenna is a name that describes a burning Hell with rotting bodies and unclean things in it}
  • Jas 5:15-18 : 15 and 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. 16 Confess your offenses to one another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effective, earnest prayer of a righteous man is powerfully effective. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.
  • Exod 32:10-14 : 10 Now 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." 11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'" 14 Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.
  • Num 16:48 : 48 He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
  • Num 25:11 : 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.
  • Deut 9:18-20 : 18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also. 20 Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
  • 2 Sam 24:16-17 : 16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh repented him of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 17 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father's house.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 29:9
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    9 If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, The fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

  • Prov 9:7-8
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    7 He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.

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  • Prov 24:9
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    9 The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

  • Prov 14:6
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    6 A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, But knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

  • Prov 14:16-17
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    16 A wise man fears, and shuns evil, But the fool is hotheaded and reckless.

    17 He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, And a crafty man is hated.

  • Prov 29:22-23
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    22 An angry man stirs up strife, And a wrathful man abounds in sin.

    23 A man's pride brings him low, But one of lowly spirit gains honor.

  • Prov 19:25
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    25 Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; Rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

  • Prov 22:10
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    10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; Yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

  • Prov 21:11-12
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    11 When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom; When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

    12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, And brings the wicked to ruin.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11 A fool vents all of his anger, But a wise man brings himself under control.

  • Prov 21:22
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    22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty, And brings down the strength of its confidence.

  • Prov 15:12
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    12 A scoffer doesn't love to be reproved; He will not go to the wise.

  • Jer 8:9
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    9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them?

  • Prov 19:28-29
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    29 Penalties are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.

  • Isa 29:20-21
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    20 For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who watch for iniquity are cut off;

    21 that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.

  • Job 22:19
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    19 The righteous see it, and are glad; The innocent ridicule them,

  • Prov 15:1
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    1 A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.

  • Prov 29:7
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    7 The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.

  • Prov 12:16
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    16 A fool shows his annoyance the same day, But one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

  • Prov 14:8-9
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    8 The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, But the folly of fools is deceit.

    9 Fools mock at making atonement for sins, But among the upright there is good will.

  • Prov 21:24
    72%

    24 The proud and haughty man, "scoffer" is his name; He works in the arrogance of pride.

  • Prov 12:8
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    8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, But he who has a warped mind shall be despised.

  • Prov 14:29
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    29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who has a quick temper displays folly.

  • Prov 11:11-12
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    11 By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, But it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

    12 One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, But a man of understanding holds his peace.

  • Prov 15:18
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    18 A wrathful man stirs up contention, But one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

  • Prov 16:14
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    14 The king's wrath is a messenger of death, But a wise man will pacify it.

  • Prov 10:14
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    14 Wise men lay up knowledge, But the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

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    14 Why hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem:

  • Prov 27:12
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    12 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it:

  • Prov 19:3
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    3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; His heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Prov 20:26
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    26 A wise king winnows out the wicked, And drives the threshing wheel over them.

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    70%

    3 The fool's talk brings a rod to his back, But the lips of the wise protect them.

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    11 The rich man is wise in his own eyes; But the poor who has understanding sees through him.

  • Eccl 7:19
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    19 Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

  • Prov 18:3
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    3 When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, And with shame comes disgrace.

  • Prov 9:12
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    12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

  • Prov 29:1
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    1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck Will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

  • Hab 1:10
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    10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

  • Prov 22:3
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    3 A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

  • Prov 3:35
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    35 The wise will inherit glory, But shame will be the promotion of fools.

  • Prov 13:1
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    1 A wise son listens to his father's instruction, But a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.

  • Prov 1:22
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    22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, And fools hate knowledge?