Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure; let not thy jealousy move thee also to do evil.
New American Standard Bible
Do not fret; it leads only to evildoing.
King James Version
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Holman Bible
do not be agitated—it can only bring harm.
International Standard Version
Calm your anger and abandon wrath. Don't be angry it only leads to evil.
A Conservative Version
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Fret not thyself, [it tends] only to evil-doing.
American Standard Version
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil-doing.
Amplified
Cease from anger and abandon wrath;
Do not fret; it leads only to evil.
Bible in Basic English
Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.
Darby Translation
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself: it would be only to do evil.
Julia Smith Translation
Desist from anger and forsake wrath: thou shalt not be angry only to do evil
King James 2000
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in any way to do evil.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Refrain from anger and forsake wrath. Do not fret; [it] only brings evil.
Modern King James verseion
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; do not fret yourself to do evil.
NET Bible
Do not be angry and frustrated! Do not fret! That only leads to trouble!
New Heart English Bible
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Do not fret, it leads only to evildoing.
The Emphasized Bible
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath, Burn not with vexation - it would be only to do evil;
Webster
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
World English Bible
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads only to evildoing.
Youngs Literal Translation
Desist from anger, and forsake fury, Fret not thyself only to do evil.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 37:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Instruction In Wisdom
7 Hold thee still in the LORD, and abide patiently upon him: but grieve not thyself at one that hath prosperity, and liveth in abomination. 8 Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure; let not thy jealousy move thee also to do evil. 9 For wicked doers shall be rooted out; but they that patiently abide the LORD, shall inherit the land.
Cross References
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, fierceness and wrath, roaring and cursed speaking, be put away from you, with all maliciousness.
Proverbs 14:29
Patience is a token of wisdom; but wrath and hasty displeasure is a token of foolishness.
Proverbs 16:32
A patient man is better than one strong; and he that can rule himself, is more worth than he that winneth a city.
Ephesians 4:26
Be angry, but sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath,
Job 5:2
As for the foolish man, displeasure killeth him; and anger slayeth the ignorant.
Colossians 3:8
But now put ye also away from you all things; wrath, fierceness, maliciousness, cursed speaking, filthy speaking out of your mouths.
James 1:19-20
Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
1 Samuel 25:21-23
And David said, "In vain have I kept all that this fellow had in the wilderness: so that nought was missed that pertained unto him, for he hath quite me with evil for good.
Job 18:4
Why destroyest thou thyself with anger? Shall the earth be forsaken, or the stones removed out of their place because of thee?
Psalm 31:22
And when I made haste, I said, "I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes." Nevertheless, thou heardest the voice of my prayer, when I cried unto thee.
Psalm 73:15
Yea, I had almost also said even as they do; but lo, then should I have condemned the generation of thy children.
Psalm 116:11
I said in my haste, "All men are liars."
Jeremiah 20:14-15
Cursed be the day wherein I was born! Unhappy be the day, wherein my mother brought me forth!
Jonah 4:1
Therefore Jonah was sore discontent and angry.
Jonah 4:9
And God said unto Jonah, "Art thou so angry for thy wild vine?" And he said, "I am angry a good, even unto the death."
Luke 9:54-55
When his disciples, James, and John, saw that, they said, "Lord, wilt thou that we command that fire come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elijah did?"
James 3:14-18
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, rejoice not: neither be liars against the truth.