Parallel Verses
Webster
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
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?
A Conservative Version
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before 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?
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?
Interlinear
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Fausets
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 wrath is heavier than both. 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? 5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
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Cross References
Proverbs 6:34
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
1 John 3:12
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Genesis 26:14
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and very many servants: And the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 37:11
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
Job 5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Song of Songs 8:6
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals of it are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Matthew 27:18
(For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.)
Acts 5:17
Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him; (which is the sect of the Sadducees) and were filled with indignation,
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Acts 17:5
But the Jews who believed not, moved with envy, took to them certain vile fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
Romans 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
James 1:19-21
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
James 3:14-16
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
James 4:5-6
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?