Song of Solomon 8:6

She would fain be as inseparable from him as the seal-cylinder, which men wore on a cord round the neck, or the seal-ring on the right hand (Genesis 38:18; Jeremiah 22:24;). Love is strong as resistless death. Jealousy can be hard as Sheol (RV), the place of the dead.

'Turning all love's delight to miserie,
Through feare of loosing his felicitie.'

And this is especially true of Orientals: 'A son of the East cannot quietly enjoy his inward felicity, cannot love without being consumed with the suspicion that others will rob him of this sweet treasure; and jealousy, the passion which gives birth to hatred and blood-feuds, establishes its way in his heart, growing apparently out of a morbid excess of sentiment.' Othello kills the person he most dearly loves. It is 'a very flame of the Lord' (RV), resistless, fierce, consuming (Genesis 23:6; Psalms 80:10; Jon 3:2; Acts 7:20).