Proverbs 27:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; But who is able to stand before envy?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, but who is able to stand before jealousy?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

Common English Bible

⁴ Wrath is cruel and anger is a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Anger holds no mercy, nor does fury when it erupts. And who can bear the assault of one who has been provoked?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

Proverbs 27:4 Cross References

Genesis 26:14

He had possessions of flocks and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

Genesis 37:11

So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

Genesis 38:9

But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went in to his brother’s wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother.

Job 5:2

Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh, but jealousy makes the bones rot.

Proverbs 27:3

A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

Proverbs 6:34

For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he will show no restraint when he takes revenge.

Song of Solomon 8:6

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame.

Matthew 27:18

For he realized that it was out of jealousy that they had handed him over.

Acts 17:5

But the Jews became jealous, and with the help of some ruffians in the marketplaces they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. While they were searching for Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly, they attacked Jason’s house.

Acts 5:17

Then the high priest took action; he and all who were with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), being filled with jealousy,

Acts 7:9

“The patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him

Romans 1:29

They were filled with every kind of injustice, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips,

1 John 3:12

We must not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.

1 Samuel 18:9

So Saul eyed David from that day on.