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Proverbs 27:4. KJ21. Wrath is cruel and anger is outraging, but who is able to stand before envy? ASV. Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy? AMP. Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, But who is able to endure and stand before [the sin of] jealousy? AMPC.
But who is able to stand before envy? or rather, jealousy. The reference is not so much to the general feeling of envy as to the outraged love in the relation of husband and wife (see Proverbs 6:34 , and note there).
KJV Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? Read full chapter.
But who is able to stand before envy? or rather, jealousy. The reference is not so much to the general feeling of envy as to the outraged love in the relation of husband and wife (see Proverbs 6:34, and note there).
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? 5 Open rebuke is better than secret love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
but who [is] able to stand before envy? which is secret in a man's heart, and privately contrives and works the ruin of another, and against which there no guarding. All mankind in Adam fell before the envy of Satan; for it was through the envy of the devil that sin and death came into the world, in the Apocrypha: