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Proverbs 27:4
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Fury is cruel, and anger a flood,but who can withstand jealousy?
Wrath is cruel, And anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?
Anger is cruel and destroys like a flood, but no one can put up with jealousy!
Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, But who is able to endure and stand before [the sin of] jealousy?
Wrath is cruel, And anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
Anger is cruell, and wrath is raging: but who can stand before enuie?
Wrath is cruelty and anger is a flood,But who can stand before jealousy?
Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
An angry person is dangerous, but a jealous person is even worse.
Fury is cruel and anger overwhelming, but who can stand up to jealousy?
Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Anger is cruel and can destroy like a flood, but jealousy is much worse.
Wrath is cruel and anger is outrageous; but who can stand before envy?
Anger is cruel and destructive, but it is nothing compared to jealousy.
Cruel is wrath and overwhelming is anger, but who will stand before jealousy?
Fury is fierce, and anger overflows, but who can stand before jealousy?
Wrath is a cruell thige, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: yee who is able to abyde envye?
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Wrath is cruell, and anger is outragious: but who is able to stand before enuie?
Wrath is a cruell thing, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: but who is able to abide enuie?
Beat the drossy silver, and it shall be made entirely pure.
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Ire hath no merci, and woodnesse brekynge out `hath no merci; and who mai suffre the fersnesse of a spirit stirid?
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?
Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent, But who is able to stand before jealousy?
Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood, but jealousy is even more dangerous.
Anger causes trouble and a bad temper is like a flood, but who can stand when there is jealousy?
Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?
The cruelty of rage, and the overflow of anger! But who can stand before, jealousy?
Anger hath no mercy: nor fury, when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?
Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming; but who can stand before jealousy?
Fury [is] fierce, and anger [is] overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?
We're blasted by anger and swamped by rage, but who can survive jealousy?
Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
cruel, and anger is outrageous: Heb. cruelty, and anger an overflowing, James 1:19-21
but: Proverbs 14:30, Genesis 26:14, Genesis 37:11, Job 5:2, Matthew 27:18, Acts 5:17, *marg. Acts 7:9, Acts 17:5, Romans 1:29, James 3:14-16, James 4:5, James 4:6, 1 John 3:12
envy: or, jealousy, Proverbs 6:34, Song of Solomon 8:6
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:1 - Jacob Genesis 37:20 - and let Genesis 38:9 - lest that Genesis 40:2 - wroth Exodus 1:9 - the people Exodus 1:11 - Raamses Exodus 1:12 - grieved Exodus 1:22 - Every son Numbers 22:27 - and Balaam's anger Judges 12:1 - we will burn 1 Samuel 17:28 - Eliab's anger 1 Samuel 18:8 - the saying 1 Samuel 18:11 - cast the javelin 1 Samuel 19:1 - And Saul 1 Samuel 19:15 - Bring him 2 Samuel 3:26 - he sent 2 Samuel 13:22 - hated Nehemiah 2:10 - it grieved Esther 3:5 - full of wrath Ecclesiastes 4:4 - every Jeremiah 41:1 - of the Ezekiel 31:9 - envied Daniel 2:12 - General Daniel 3:12 - certain Daniel 3:19 - he spake Matthew 2:16 - was exceeding Matthew 14:11 - and given Mark 6:24 - The head Mark 15:10 - for envy
Cross-References
And blessing him, said, May the blessing of the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth, be on Abram:
And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.
Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.
Go and get some roe's meat and make me a good meal, so that I may be full, and give you my blessing before the Lord before my death.
And Rebekah took the fair robes of her oldest son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son:
And Isaac said, How is it that you have got it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord your God made it come my way.
And Jacob went near his father Isaac: and he put his hands on him; and he said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
And he did not make out who he was, because his hands were covered with hair like his brother Esau's hands: so he gave him a blessing.
And he said, Put it before me and I will take of my son's meat, so that I may give you a blessing. And he put it before him and he took it; and he gave him wine, and he had a drink.
And he came near and gave him a kiss; and smelling the smell of his clothing, he gave him a blessing, and said, See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field on which the blessing of the Lord has come:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous,.... Or "an inundation" x; it is like the breaking in of the sea, or a flood of mighty waters, which know no bounds, and there is no stopping them: so cruel and outrageous were the wrath and anger of Simeon and Levi, in destroying the Shechemites; of Pharaoh, in making the Israelites to serve with hard bondage, and ordering their male children to be killed and drowned; and of Herod, in murdering the infants in and about Bethlehem;
but who [is] able to stand before envy? which is secret in a man's heart, and privately contrives and works the ruin of another, and against which there no guarding. All mankind in Adam fell before the envy of Satan; for it was through the envy of the devil that sin and death came into the world, in the Apocrypha:
"Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.'' (Wisdom 2:24)
Abel could not stand before the envy of Cain; nor Joseph before the envy of his brethren; nor Christ before the envy of the Jews, his bitter enemies; and, where it is, there is confusion and every evil work, James 3:14. An envious man is worse than an angry and wrathful man; his wrath and anger may be soon over, or there may be ways and means of appeasing him; but envy continues and abides, and works insensibly.
x שטף "inundatio", Michaelis, so Montanus, Vatablus, Tigurine version, "exundatio", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "inundatio salcans", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Envy - Better, as in the margin, the violence of passion in the husband who thinks himself wronged (compare Proverbs 6:34).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 27:4. Who is able to stand before envy? — The rabbins have a curious story on this subject, and it has been formed by the moderns into a fable. There were two persons, one covetous and the other envious, to whom a certain person promised to grant whatever they should ask; but double to him who should ask last. The covetous man would not ask first, because he wished to get the double portion, and the envious man would not make the first request because he could not bear the thoughts of thus benefiting his neighbour. However, at last he requested that one of his eyes should be taken out, in order that his neighbour might lose both.
