Proverbs 27:4
It is cruel to be angry with others, and our being angry sometimes destroys others, but being jealous of someone is [RHQ] often more cruel than that.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 37:11Joseph’s older brothers were furious/angry with him, but his father just kept thinking about what the dream meant.
1 Samuel 18:9From that time, Saul watched David very closely because he was suspicious that David would try to become king.
Proverbs 6:34Because that woman’s husband will ◄be jealous/not want anyone else to sleep with her►, he will become furious, and when he gets revenge, he will not act mercifully toward the man who slept with his wife.
Song of Solomon 8:6Keep me close to you, like [SIM] a seal on your heart, or like [SIM] a bracelet on your arm. Our love for each other is as powerful as death, it is as enduring as the grave. It is as though our love for each other bursts into flames and burns like a hot fire.
Acts 5:17Then the high priest and all who were with him, who were members of the local Sadducee sect in Jerusalem, became very jealous of the apostles, because many people were accepting the apostles’ message.
Acts 17:5But some leaders of the Jews there in Thessalonica became jealous because many people believed what Paul taught. So they went to the public square and persuaded some lazy men who were loitering there to follow them. In this way, the leaders of the Jews gathered a crowd and incited them to become noisy and start a riot against Paul and Silas. Those Jews and others ran to the house of a man named Jason. He was the man who had invited Paul and Silas to stay at his house. They wanted to bring Paul and Silas outside to where the crowd of people was waiting.
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 →