THEOSISProverbs 27:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Anger hath no mercy: nor fury, when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?
אַכְזְרִיּ֣וּת חֵ֭מָה וְשֶׁ֣טֶף אָ֑ף וּמִ֥י יַ֝עֲמֹד לִפְנֵ֥י קִנְאָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 6:34Because the jealousy and rage of the husband will not spare in the day of revenge,
- Prov 14:30Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh: but envy is the rottenness of the bones.
- Acts 7:9And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,
- Jas 3:14But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth.
- Jas 3:16For where envying and contention is: there is inconstancy and every evil work.
- Job 5:2Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.
- Matt 27:18For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
- Acts 17:5But the Jews, moved with envy and taking unto them some wicked men of the vulgar sort and making a tumult, set the city in an uproar: and besetting Jason's house, sought to bring them out unto the people.