Proverbs 27:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ Wrath is cruel and displeasure 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?

Proverbs 27:4 Cross References

Genesis 26:14

And he came to have possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great body of servants, and the Philistines envied him.

Genesis 37:11

And his brothers envied him, but his father guarded the word.

Genesis 38:9

And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. And it came to be, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he spilled on the ground, lest he should give an offspring to his brother.

Job 5:2

For wrath kills the fool, and envy slays the simple.

Proverbs 14:30

A healthy heart is life to the body, But envy is rottenness to the bones.

Proverbs 27:3

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

Proverbs 6:34

For jealousy enrages a man, And he does not spare in the day of vengeance.

Song of Solomon 8:6

Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon your arm; For love is as strong as death, Jealousy as cruel as the grave; Its flames are flames of fire, a flame of Yah!

Matthew 27:18

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered Him up.

Acts 17:5

But the Yehuḏ

Acts 5:17

But the high priest rose up, and all those with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, and they were filled with jealousy,

Acts 7:9

“And the ancestors, becoming jealous, sold Yosĕ

Romans 1:29

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoring, wickedness, greed, evil; filled with envy, murder, fighting, deceit, evil habits; whisperers,

1 John 3:12

not as Qayin who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his works were wicked but those of his brother were righteous.

1 Samuel 18:9

And from that day on Sha’ul eyed Dawiḏ