Proverbs 29:8 (BSB)

Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.

From Proverbs 29. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 29:8

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 29:8: See here, 1. Who are the men that are dangerous to the public - scornful men. When such are employed in the business of the state they do things with precipitation, because they scorn to deliberate, and will not take time for consideration and consultation; they do things illegal and unjustifiable, because they scorn to be hampered by laws and constitutions; they break their faith...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 29:8: Scornful men bring a city into a snare,.... Such as despise dominion, speak evil of dignities; proud and haughty men, that speak Loftily, and with a contempt of their superiors; or who make a mock at religion, and scoff at all that is good and serious; these bring the inhabitants of a city into a snare, to rebel against their governors, and so into mischief...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 29:8: Scornful men--those who contemptuously disregard God's law. bring--(Compare Margin), kindle strife. turn away wrath--that is, "abate wrath."
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 29:8: Pro 29:8 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.