Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
The verse belongs to the writings of Solomon in the last fifteen chapters of Proverbs, among the proverbs beginning at chapter 25 that the scribes of Hezekiah copied out from Solomon's many writings. He wrote three thousand proverbs, and the greater part of Proverbs was written about the year one thousand and later.
No one lives to himself, and scornful men are those who esteem lightly the needs of cities. By failing to labor for souls they bring a city into a snare, as Lot did in Sodom. Wise men turn away wrath by hastening to learn the lesson and carrying the sacred warning to souls in danger in the great hives of industry, commerce, and transgression. In this way they turn wrath away from the heads of many.
Where there is no divine communication the people perish, but the keeper of the commandment is blessed. The gift of prophecy is joined to keeping the law of God and is never given when God's people have departed from the law.
The verse belongs to the writings of Solomon in the last fifteen chapters of Proverbs, among the proverbs beginning at chapter 25 that the scribes of Hezekiah copied out from Solomon's many writings. He wrote three thousand proverbs, and the greater part of Proverbs was written about the year one thousand and later.
No one lives to himself, and scornful men are those who esteem lightly the needs of cities. By failing to labor for souls they bring a city into a snare, as Lot did in Sodom. Wise men turn away wrath by hastening to learn the lesson and carrying the sacred warning to souls in danger in the great hives of industry, commerce, and transgression. In this way they turn wrath away from the heads of many.
Where there is no divine communication the people perish, but the keeper of the commandment is blessed. The gift of prophecy is joined to keeping the law of God and is never given when God's people have departed from the law.