Job 5:2

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.

Romans 2:8

but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

Hosea 7:11

Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.

Proverbs 12:16

The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.

Psalm 107:17

Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;

Psalm 92:6

The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:

Psalm 75:4

I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn;

Psalm 14:1

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.

Job 18:4

You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?

Genesis 30:1

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”

2 Timothy 3:6

For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,

Jonah 4:9

But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”

Proverbs 8:5

O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.

Proverbs 27:3

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

Genesis 38:9

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

Proverbs 19:16

Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises his ways will die.

Proverbs 19:19

A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.