4Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. …
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
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,…
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