Proverbs 29:8
Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.
BSB
ASV
Scoffers set a city in a flame; But wise men turn away wrath.
KJV
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Scornful men - The men who head political or religious revolutions, who inflame (literally as in the margin) the minds of the people against the powers that be.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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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.
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then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.
then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.
Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in…
So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
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Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the upright a city is built up, but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.
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Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on…
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Proverbs 16:14The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
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The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.