Proverbs 27:4
Modern Translations
New International Version
Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

New Living Translation
Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood, but jealousy is even more dangerous.

English Standard Version
Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Berean Study Bible
Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

New American Standard Bible
Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?

NASB 1995
Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?

NASB 1977
Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?

Amplified Bible
Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, But who is able to endure and stand before [the sin of] jealousy?

Christian Standard Bible
Fury is cruel, and anger a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Fury is cruel, and anger a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

Contemporary English Version
An angry person is dangerous, but a jealous person is even worse.

Good News Translation
Anger is cruel and destructive, but it is nothing compared to jealousy.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Anger is cruel, and fury is overwhelming, but who can survive jealousy?

International Standard Version
Wrath can be fierce and anger overwhelms but who can stand up to jealousy?

NET Bible
Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

New King James Version
Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent, But who is able to stand before jealousy?

King James 2000 Bible
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but which is able to stand before jealousy?

New Heart English Bible
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

World English Bible
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

American King James Version
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

American Standard Version
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

A Faithful Version
Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Darby Bible Translation
Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

English Revised Version
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Webster's Bible Translation
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Anger is cruell, and wrath is raging: but who can stand before enuie?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Wrath is a cruell thing, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: but who is able to abide enuie?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Wrath is a cruell thige, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: yee who is able to abyde envye?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Fury [is] fierce, and anger [is] overflowing, "" And who stands before jealousy?

Young's Literal Translation
Fury is fierce, and anger is overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?

Smith's Literal Translation
Wrath is cruelty, and anger an overflowing; and who shall stand before jealousy?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

Catholic Public Domain Version
Anger holds no mercy, nor does fury when it erupts. And who can bear the assault of one who has been provoked?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Presumption is rage and impetuosity is passion, but who shall stand before envy?

Lamsa Bible
Wrath is cruel and anger is outrageous; but who can stand before envy?

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Wrath is merciless, and anger sharp: but envy can bear nothing.
















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