Proverbs Chapter 27 verse 4 Holy Bible
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
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Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
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Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
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Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
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Wrath is cruel, And anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
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Fury `is' fierce, and anger `is' overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.
