Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:11By the blessing of the upright a city is built up, but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.
Proverbs 16:14The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
Proverbs 29:9If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.
Treasury of Scripture
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
scornful
Proverbs 11:11
By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Isaiah 28:14-22
Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem…
Matthew 27:39-43
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, …
James 3:5,6
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! …
wise
Exodus 32:10-14
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…
Numbers 16:48
And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Numbers 25:11
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
