Proverbs 27:4
New International Version
Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

New Living Translation
Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood, but jealousy is even more dangerous.

English Standard Version
Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Berean Standard Bible
Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

King James Bible
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

New King James Version
Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent, But who is able to stand before jealousy?

New American Standard Bible
Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?

NASB 1995
Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?

NASB 1977
Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?

Legacy Standard Bible
Wrath is cruelty and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?

Amplified Bible
Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, But who is able to endure and stand before [the sin of] jealousy?

Christian Standard Bible
Fury is cruel, and anger a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Fury is cruel, and anger a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

American Standard Version
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Presumption is rage and impetuosity is passion, but who shall stand before envy?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Wrath is merciless, and anger sharp: but envy can bear nothing.

Contemporary English Version
An angry person is dangerous, but a jealous person is even worse.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

English Revised Version
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Anger is cruel, and fury is overwhelming, but who can survive jealousy?

Good News Translation
Anger is cruel and destructive, but it is nothing compared to jealousy.

International Standard Version
Wrath can be fierce and anger overwhelms but who can stand up to jealousy?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

Literal Standard Version
Fury [is] fierce, and anger [is] overflowing, | And who stands before jealousy?

Majority Standard Bible
Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

New American Bible
Anger is cruel, and wrath overwhelming, but before jealousy who can stand?

NET Bible
Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

New Revised Standard Version
Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?

New Heart English Bible
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Webster's Bible Translation
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

World English Bible
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Young's Literal Translation
Fury is fierce, and anger is overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Do not Boast about Tomorrow
3A stone is heavy and sand is a burden, but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both. 4Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy? 5Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.…

Cross References
1 John 3:12
Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

Proverbs 6:34
For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy and sand is a burden, but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.


Treasury of Scripture

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

James 1:19-21
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: …

but

Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Genesis 26:14
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

Genesis 37:11
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

envy

Proverbs 6:34
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

Song of Solomon 8:6
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

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Proverbs 27
1. observations of self love
5. of true love
11. of care to avoid offenses
23. and of the household care














(4) But who is able to stand before envy?--Rather, jealousy. (Comp. Proverbs 6:34.) "Wrath" and "anger" rage for awhile like a storm, and then subside; but jealousy can never be completely set at rest.

Verse 4. - Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous. Again substantives are used, as in ver. 3, "Cruelty of wrath, and overflowing of anger." Figure to yourself the fierceness and cruelty of a sudden excitement of anger, or the bursting forth of passion which, like a flood, carries all before it; these may be violent for a time, yet they will subside when they have spent themselves. But who is able to stand before envy? or rather, jealousy. The reference is not so much to the general feeling of envy as to the outraged love in the relation of husband and wife (see Proverbs 6:34, and note there). Song of Solomon 8:6, "Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very vehement flame." Such jealousy does not blaze forth in some sudden outbreak, and then die away; it lives and broods and feeds itself hourly with fresh aliment, and is ready to act at any moment, hesitating at no means to gratify itself, and sacrificing without mercy its victim. Septuagint, "Pitiless is wrath, and sharp is anger; but jealousy (ζῆλος) submits to nothing."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Wrath
חֵ֭מָה (ḥê·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2534: Heat, anger, poison

[is] cruel
אַכְזְרִיּ֣וּת (’aḵ·zə·rî·yūṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 395: Cruelty, fierceness

and anger
אָ֑ף (’āp̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

[is] like a flood,
וְשֶׁ֣טֶף (wə·še·ṭep̄)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7858: Flood -- a deluge

but who
וּמִ֥י (ū·mî)
Conjunctive waw | Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

can withstand
יַ֝עֲמֹד (ya·‘ă·mōḏ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5975: To stand, in various relations

jealousy?
קִנְאָֽה׃ (qin·’āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7068: Ardor, zeal, jealousy


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