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Proverbs 27:4
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Wrath is cruelty and anger is a flood,But who can stand before jealousy?
Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?
Wrath is a cruell thing, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: but who is able to abide enuie?
Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent, But who is able to stand before jealousy?
Fury is fierce, and anger overflows, but who can 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?
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
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 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?
Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Anger causes trouble and a bad temper is like a flood, but who can stand when there is jealousy?
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?
Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand 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?
Cruel is wrath and overwhelming is anger, but who will stand before jealousy?
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!
Anger is cruel and destructive, but it is nothing compared to jealousy.
Fury is cruel, and anger a flood, but who can withstand 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, anger is overwhelming; but who can stand before jealousy?
Fury [is] fierce, and anger [is] overflowing, And who standeth 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
Melchizedek blessed Abram with this blessing: "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
They gave her this blessing as she parted: "Our sister, may you become the mother of many millions! May your descendants be strong and conquer the cities of their enemies."
One day when Isaac was old and turning blind, he called for Esau, his older son, and said, "My son." "Yes, Father?" Esau replied.
‘Bring me some wild game and prepare me a delicious meal. Then I will bless you in the Lord 's presence before I die.'
Then she took Esau's favorite clothes, which were there in the house, and gave them to her younger son, Jacob.
Isaac asked, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" "The Lord your God put it in my path!" Jacob replied.
So Jacob went closer to his father, and Isaac touched him. "The voice is Jacob's, but the hands are Esau's," Isaac said.
But he did not recognize Jacob, because Jacob's hands felt hairy just like Esau's. So Isaac prepared to bless Jacob.
Then Isaac said, "Now, my son, bring me the wild game. Let me eat it, and then I will give you my blessing." So Jacob took the food to his father, and Isaac ate it. He also drank the wine that Jacob served him.
So Jacob went over and kissed him. And when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he was finally convinced, and he blessed his son. He said, "Ah! The smell of my son is like the smell of the outdoors, 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.
