Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Proverbs 27:4
Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before (b) envy?
(b) For the envious are obstinate, and cannot be reconciled.
Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before (b) envy?
(b) For the envious are obstinate, and cannot be reconciled.
Verse Proverbs 27:4. _WHO_ IS _ABLE TO STAND BEFORE ENVY?_] The rabbins have a curious story on this subject, and it has been formed by the moderns into a fable. There were two persons, one _covetous...
ENVY - Better, as in the margin, the violence of passion in the husband who thinks himself wronged (compare Proverbs 6:34)....
V. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO SOLOMON In the three Chapter s which follow 27-29 we find the change we have noticed before. These proverbs are addressed to a person and the phrases “My son” and the persona...
A collection of aphorisms on various subjects. PROVERBS 27:3. _cf._ Sir_22:14 f. The comparison suggests that vexation is out of place. It is the fool that is a bore, not his anger. Proverbs 27:4 a...
ENVY. jealousy....
_envy_ Rather, JEALOUSY. Comp. Proverbs 6:34....
DISCOURSE: 812 ENVY Proverbs 27:4. _Who is able to stand before envy?_ MAN is an enemy to his fellow man: nor is there any one who does not on some occasion experience reason for this complaint. But,...
CHAPTER 27 TEXT Proverbs 27:1-9 1. Boast not thyself of tomorrow; For thou knowest now what a day may bring forth. 2. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not th...
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? WRATH (IS) CRUEL (CRUELTY ITSELF), AND ANGER (IS) OUTRAGEOUS (OVERFLOWING, LIKE A TORRENT, UNEXPECTEDLY, OVERWHELMINGL...
SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS. AGRICULTURE 4. Envy] a husband's jealousy is meant (Song of Solomon 8:6). 5, 6. Men 'hide' (RV) love when they refrain from telling a friend his faults. An enemy will be 'profus...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 27 V1 Do not become proud about your plans for tomorrow. You do not know what will happen tomorrow....
Anger is terrible. But, like the flood, the anger will soon end. The waters of a flood will soon go away. And an angry man will soon become calm again. But a jealous person is in a worse state. This...
BUT WHO IS ABLE TO STAND BEFORE ENVY? — Rather, _jealousy._ (Comp. Proverbs 6:34.) “Wrath” and “anger” rage for awhile like a storm, and then subside; but jealousy can never be completely set at rest....
אַכְזְרִיּ֣וּת חֵ֭מָה וְ שֶׁ֣טֶף אָ֑ף וּ מִ֥י
CHAPTER 28 LIVING DAY BY DAY "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth."- Proverbs 27:1 "The grave and destruction are never satisfied; and the eyes of men ar...
“HEARTY COUNSEL” Proverbs 27:1-22 The keyword in this paragraph is _friends_, Proverbs 27:6; Proverbs 27:9-10; Proverbs 27:14; Proverbs 27:17; Proverbs 19:1-29. Friends, according to the original se...
Verse Proverbs 27:5. This proverb takes for granted the need for rebuke, and by 'love that is hidden" is meant a love which fails to rebuke. Verse Proverbs 27:14. There is nothing more calculated to...
_And who. Septuagint, "but envy (zeal) beareth nothing." The more we yield to the envious, the more he is offended at our good behaviour._...
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. Wrath is cruel, and ange...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
WRATH [IS] CRUEL, AND ANGER [IS] OUTRAGEOUS,.... Or "an inundation" x; it is like the breaking in of the sea, or a flood of mighty waters, which know no bounds, and there is no stopping them: so cruel...
Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy? Ver. 4. _Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous._] Or, Overflowing all the banks, or carrying all before it as an...
_Wrath is cruel_ And doth many barbarous things; _and anger is outrageous_ Often depriving a man of the proper use of his reason, and hurrying him into many mischiefs and miseries; _but who is able to...
EXALTATION OF SELF LEADS TO FOLLY...
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous, literally, "Raving is anger and wrath is overflowing," like a flood which carries everything before it; BUT WHO IS ABLE TO STAND BEFORE ENVY? jealousy being wo...
HERE THE SUBJECT matter is completely changed. No longer is the outside opposition of the enemy found, but any dangers now considered are those arising from the state of our own hearts. This third sec...
WRATH IS CRUEL, AND ANGER IS OUTRAGEOUS: _ Heb._ Wrath is cruelty, and anger an overflowing ENVY?: Or, jealousy...
Envy is worse than both of them, partly, because it is more unjust and unreasonable, as not caused by any provocation, as wrath and anger are, but only proceeding from a malignity of mind, whereby a m...
Proverbs 27:4 Wrath H2534 cruel H395 anger H639 torrent H7858 stand H5975 (H8799) before H6440 jealousy H7068...
Proverbs 27:1. _Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth._ Let us never boast of future days and years, or what we mean to do when we come to any age, or what sh...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson.) Use the present time with diligence and wisdom and presume not upon tomorrow. We should speak of th...
Proverbs 27:2. _Let another man praise thee._ A man is sometimes compelled to speak of himself. But modesty often prefers speaking in the third person; as St. John, who says, “that disciple whom Jesus...
_Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?_ ANGER AND ENVY I. The evil principles indicated in the text are extensively and dangerously prevalent. To be irritated...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 27:3 Both proverbs have the same pattern (two items mentioned for comparison’s sake, followed by a single item that is worse than both of them). Together, the proverbs sugges...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 27:4. Delitzsch reads this verse “_The madness of anger and the overflowing of wrath, and before jealousy who keeps his place?_” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 27:3_ WRATH A...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 27:1 These verses are grouped in pairs, each two being connected in subject. PROVERBS 27:1 BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TOMORROW. He boasts himself ...
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring foRuth (Proverbs 27:1). Very good. This is, of course, the idea is taken up in the New Testament book of James. He said, "Go t...
1 John 3:12; Acts 17:5; Acts 5:17; Acts 7:9; Genesis 26:14;...
MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE Proverbs 27:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God has given to each of us a life freighted with many privileges and with many opportunities. There is a little verse in the New Testament w...