Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?
New American Standard Bible
But
King James Version
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Holman Bible
but who can withstand jealousy?
International Standard Version
Wrath can be fierce and anger overwhelms but who can stand up to jealousy?
American Standard Version
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
Amplified
Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood,
But who is able to endure and stand before [the sin of] jealousy?
Bible in Basic English
Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
Darby Translation
Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Julia Smith Translation
Wrath is cruelty, and anger an overflowing; and who shall stand before jealousy?
King James 2000
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but which is able to stand before jealousy?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Cruel [is] wrath and overwhelming [is] anger, but who will stand before jealousy?
Modern King James verseion
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before envy?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wrath is a cruel thing, and furiousness is a very tempest; yea, who is able to abide envy?
NET Bible
Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
New Heart English Bible
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
The Emphasized Bible
The cruelty of rage, and the overflow of anger! But who can stand before, jealousy?
Webster
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
World English Bible
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Youngs Literal Translation
Fury is fierce, and anger is overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 27:4
Prayers for Proverbs 27:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Life
3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, but a fool's vexation is heavier than both. 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy? 5 Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.
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Cross References
Proverbs 6:34
For jealousy is a man's fury, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
1 John 3:12
Not as Cain. He was of the wicked, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were wrong, and his brother's right.
Genesis 26:14
And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household. And the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 37:11
And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
Job 5:2
For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.
Proverbs 14:30
A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.
Song of Songs 8:6
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm. For love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as Sheol. The flashes of it are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame.
Matthew 27:18
For he knew that they delivered him up because of envy.
Acts 5:17
But after rising up, the high priest and all those with him (being the sect of the Sadducees) were filled of envy.
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, being envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,
Acts 17:5
But the disobedient Jews having taken along certain evil men of the marketplaces, and having gathered a mob, were rioting the city. And having stood by the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the populace.
Romans 1:29
having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;
James 1:19-21
Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
James 3:14-16
But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.
James 4:5-6
Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy?