Proverbs 27:4

Tree of Life Version

Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Cross References

Genesis 26:14

He acquired livestock of sheep and livestock of cattle, and numerous servants. Then the Philistines envied him.

Genesis 37:11

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

Genesis 38:9

But Onan knew that the seed would not be his. So every time he went to his brother’s wife he would destroy it on the ground so as not to provide a seed for his brother.

Job 5:2

For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.

Proverbs 27:3

A stone is heavy and sand a burden, but provocation by a fool is heavier than both.

Proverbs 6:34

For jealousy enrages a man and he will show no mercy in the day of revenge.

Song of Solomon 8:6

Set me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, jealousy as cruel as Sheol. Its flames are bolts of fire, the flame of Adonai.

Matthew 27:18

For he knew that they had handed Him over out of envy.

Acts 17:5

But some of the Jewish people became jealous. Taking some wicked fellows of the marketplace and gathering a crowd, they stirred the city into an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to bring Paul and Silas out to the mob.

Acts 5:17

But the kohen gadol rose up, and all those with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

Acts 7:9

The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him.

Romans 1:29

They became filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. They are gossips,

1 John 3:12

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

1 Samuel 18:9

So Saul eyed David from that day on.