4Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?


In Context

1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.

3 Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but provocation by a fool is heavier than both.

4 Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

6 Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.

Proverbs 27:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:4Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:4Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:4Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:4Fury is fierce, and anger is overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?