the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Proverbs 27:4
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Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood, but jealousy is even more dangerous.
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to 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 overwhelming, but who can 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 is able to stand before jealousy?
Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can 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 outrageous; but who is able to 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.
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
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 overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Wrath is cruell, and anger is outragious: but who is able to stand before enuie?
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?
Anger is cruell, and wrath is raging: but who can stand before enuie?
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.
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?
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.
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?
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?
Fury [is] fierce, and anger [is] overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?
Wrath is a cruell thige, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: yee who is able to abyde envye?
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?
Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent, But who is able to stand before jealousy?
Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?
Wrath is cruelty 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 Melchizedek blessed Abram and said, "Blessed (joyful, favored) be Abram by God Most High, Creator and Possessor of heaven and earth;
They blessed Rebekah and said to her, "May you, our sister, Become [the mother of] thousands of ten thousands, And may your descendants possess (conquer) The [city] gate of those who hate them."
Now when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, he called his elder [and favorite] son Esau and said to him, "My son." And Esau answered him, "Here I am."
'Bring me some game and make me a savory and delicious dish [of meat], so that I may eat it, and declare my blessing on you in the presence of the LORD before my death.'
Then Rebekah took her elder son Esau's best clothes, which were with her in her house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found the game so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because the LORD your God caused it to come to me."
So Jacob approached Isaac, and his father touched him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
He could not recognize him [as Jacob], because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.
Then Isaac said, "Bring the food to me, and I will eat some of my son's game, so that I may bless you." He brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine and he drank.
So he came and kissed him; and Isaac smelled his clothing and blessed him and said, "The scent of my son [Esau] Is like the aroma of a field which the LORD has blessed;
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.
