Proverbs 27:4
Chemah (anger) is cruel, and fury is a torrent, 1 but who is able to stand before kinah (jealousy, envy)? 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
In Context
5Open tovah tokhakhat (good, constructive reproof) 1 is better than secret ahavah. 1
Cross References
Genesis 37:11And his achim had kina (jealousy, envy) toward him; but Aviv was shomer over the saying.
1 Samuel 18:9And there was jealous suspicion in the way Sha'ul eyed Dovid from that day forward.
Proverbs 6:34For kina (jealousy) is the chamat gever (husbandʼs rage); 1 therefore he will not spare in the yom nakam (day of vengeance). 1
Song of Solomon 8:6Set me as a chotam (seal) upon thine lev, 1 as a chotam upon thine zero'a (arm); 1 for ahavah is strong as mavet (death); 1 kinah (jealousy) as unyielding as Sheol; 1 the flames thereof are flames of eish, 1 the flame of Hashem. 1
Acts 5:17But there was an uprising of the Kohen Gadol and all the ones with him of the Tzedukim kat, and they were filled with kinah.
Acts 17:5And the Yehudim without emunah, being filled with kinah, and having rounded up from the people of the market the gornisht and the no-goodniks, and having formed a mob, were throwing the city into an uproar. And the crowd was seeking to bring out Moshiachʼs Shlichim and throw them to the mob, so they attacked the bais of Jason.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:4-5
3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? These two verses show the intolerable mischief, 1. Of ungoverned passion. The wrath of a fool, who when he is provoked cares not what he says and does, is more grievous than a great stone or a load of sand. It lies heavily upon himself. Those who have no command of their passions do themselves even sink under the load of them. The wrath of a fool… Read the whole commentary →