Proverbs 27:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Proverbs 27:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 6:34
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
James 3:14-16
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. …
Matthew 27:18
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

Topics

Anger Envy Hatred Jealousy Malice Murmuring Strife Temper

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3-4)

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 lies heavily upon those he is enraged at, to whom,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. envy--or, “jealousy” (compare Margin; Pr 6:34), is more unappeasable than the simpler bad passions.