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Selected Verse: Proverbs 29:8 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Pr 29:8	Strong Concordance	Scornful [03944] men [0582] bring [06315] a city [07151] into a snare [06315]: but wise [02450] men turn away [07725] wrath [0639].
	King James	Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Scornful men--those who contemptuously disregard God's law. bring--(Compare Margin), kindle strife. turn away wrath--that is, "abate wrath."

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

Scornful men--those who contemptuously disregard God's law.

bring--(Compare Margin), kindle strife.

turn away wrath--that is, "abate wrath."

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
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.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

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.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
8 Men of derision set the city in an uproar, But wise men allay anger. Isa. 28 shows what we are to understand by אנשׁי לצון: men to whom nothing is holy, and who despise all authority. The Hiphil יפיחוּ does not signify irretiunt, from פּחח (Venet. παγιδιοῦσι, after Kimchi, Aben Ezra, and others), but sufflant, from פוח (Rashi: ילהיבו): they stir up or excite the city, i.e., its inhabitants, so that they begin to burn as with flames, i.e., by the dissolution of the bonds of mutual respect and of piety, by the letting loose of passion, they disturb the peace and excite the classes of the community and individuals against each other; but the wise bring it about that the breathings of anger that has broken forth, or is in the act of breaking forth, are allayed. The anger is not that of God, as it is rendered by Jerome and Luther, and as יפיחו freely translated might mean. The Aram. err in regard to יפיחו in passages such as Pro 6:19.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

8 Men of derision set the city in an uproar,

But wise men allay anger.

Isa. 28 shows what we are to understand by אנשׁי לצון: men to whom nothing is holy, and who despise all authority. The Hiphil יפיחוּ does not signify irretiunt, from פּחח (Venet. παγιδιοῦσι, after Kimchi, Aben Ezra, and others), but sufflant, from פוח (Rashi: ילהיבו): they stir up or excite the city, i.e., its inhabitants, so that they begin to burn as with flames, i.e., by the dissolution of the bonds of mutual respect and of piety, by the letting loose of passion, they disturb the peace and excite the classes of the community and individuals against each other; but the wise bring it about that the breathings of anger that has broken forth, or is in the act of breaking forth, are allayed. The anger is not that of God, as it is rendered by Jerome and Luther, and as יפיחו freely translated might mean. The Aram. err in regard to יפיחו in passages such as Pro 6:19.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Wrath - The wrath of God or of men, who were enraged against it.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Wrath - The wrath of God or of men, who were enraged against it.

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