Verse (Click for Chapter) 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. Jump to Previous Able Anger Angry Cruel Envy Feeling Fierce Flood Fury Jealousy Outrageous Overflowing Overwhelming Stand Standeth Stream Way WrathJump to Next Able Anger Angry Cruel Envy Feeling Fierce Flood Fury Jealousy Outrageous Overflowing Overwhelming Stand Standeth Stream Way WrathProverbs 27 1. observations of self love5. 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 Wrathחֵ֭מָה (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 Links Proverbs 27:4 NIVProverbs 27:4 NLT Proverbs 27:4 ESV Proverbs 27:4 NASB Proverbs 27:4 KJV Proverbs 27:4 BibleApps.com Proverbs 27:4 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 27:4 Chinese Bible Proverbs 27:4 French Bible Proverbs 27:4 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming (Prov. 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