Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
For vexation will slay the fool, and jealousy will kill [the] simple.
New American Standard Bible
And jealousy kills the simple.
King James Version
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Holman Bible
and jealousy slays the gullible.
International Standard Version
For wrath will slay a fool; zealous anger will kill the naive.
A Conservative Version
For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.
American Standard Version
For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.
Amplified
“For anger slays the foolish man,
And jealousy kills the simple (naive).
Bible in Basic English
For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.
Darby Translation
For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple.
Julia Smith Translation
For to the foolish, and anger will slay, and the simple will jealousy kill.
King James 2000
For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the simple one.
Modern King James verseion
For vexation kills the fool, and envy slays the simple one.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As for the foolish man, displeasure killeth him; and anger slayeth the ignorant.
NET Bible
For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.
New Heart English Bible
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
The Emphasized Bible
For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.
Webster
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
World English Bible
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
Youngs Literal Translation
For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 5:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Response Continues
1 "Call now, is there [anyone] answering you? And to which of [the] holy ones will you turn? 2 For vexation will slay the fool, and jealousy will kill [the] simple. 3 I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she could not bear children to Jacob, Rachel envied her sister. And she said to Jacob, "Give me children--if not, I will die!"
1 Samuel 18:8-9
{Saul became very angry}, and {this saying displeased him}, and he thought, "They have attributed to David ten thousands, but to me they have attributed thousands! {What more can he have but the kingdom}?"
Job 18:4
"[You who] are tearing {yourself} in your anger, will [the] earth be forsaken because of you? Or will [the] rock be removed from its place?
Psalm 14:1
[The] fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good.
Psalm 75:4
I say to the boastful, 'Do not boast!' and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up [your] horn!
Psalm 92:6
[The] brutish man does not know, and [the] fool cannot understand this.
Psalm 107:17
Fools, because of their rebellious way and their iniquities, were afflicted.
Proverbs 1:22-23
"{How long}, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And [how long] will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 8:5
Learn prudence, O simple ones; fools, learn {intelligence}.
Proverbs 12:16
As for a fool, {on that very day} he makes his anger known, but he who ignores an insult [is] prudent.
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Do not be quick in your spirit to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
Hosea 7:11
Ephraim was like a dove, silly, {without sense}; they call [to] Egypt, they go [to] Assyria.
Jonah 4:9
So God said to Jonah, "{Is it right for you to be angry} about the plant?" And he said, "{It is right for me to be angry enough to die}!"
Romans 2:8
but to those [who act] from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.
2 Timothy 3:6
For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires,