Proverbs 27:4

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, OVERWHELMINGLY, POWERFULLY, AND DANGEROUSLY, ); BUT WHO (IS) ABLE TO STAND BEFORE ENVY? - or jealousy (). So the Chaldaic. The angry man avows his anger; the envious or jealous craftily hides it until he gets his opportunity. The angry may possibly be appeased in course of time; the envious or jealous becomes only more exasperated. Envy or jealousy penetrates more deeply, creeps slowly, and cannot be eradicated (Gejer)....

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_ and the other _envious_, to whom a certain person promised to grant whatever they should ask; but _double_ to him who should ask _last_. The _covetous_ man would not ask _first_, because he wished to get the _double_ portion, and the _envious_ man would not make the first request because he could not bear the thoughts of thus benefiting his neighbour. However, at last he requested that _one_ of his eyes should be taken out, in order that his neighbour might lose both....

ENVY - Better, as in the margin, the violence of passion in the husband who thinks himself wronged (compare Proverbs 6:34)....

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 (Proverbs 25:14) of tomorrow who counts upon it presumptuously, settles that he will do this or that, as if his life was in his own power, and he could make sure of time. This is blindness and arrogance. FOR THOU KNOWEST NOT WHAT A DAY MAY BRING FORTH. Our Lord gave a lesson on this matter in the parable of the rich fool (Luke 12:1.); and an analogous warning, based on our ver

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 and outrageous were the wrath and anger of Simeon and Levi, in destroying the Shechemites; of Pharaoh, in making the Israelites to serve with hard bondage, and ordering their male children to be killed and drowned; and of Herod, in murdering the infants in and about Bethlehem; 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: "Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do...

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 shall be our position when we grow gray. Let us never boast of anything in the future, for we cannot tell what even a day may bring forth. Proverbs 27:2. _Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips._ For he who praises himself writes himself down a fool in capital letters. Proverbs 27:3. _A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both._ One might endure almost any sort of

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 personal address, “thou,” “thy” and “thyself,” are again used in these Chapter s. Like the previous sections, so here we find instructions which were given to Solomon. CHAPTER 27 INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS The opening proverb warns against procrastination. No one can be sure of what the next day may bring forth.True wisdom is not to trust the future day, for it may never come, nor are we to dwell in the past. While it is today we must live and act and leave nothing undone which can be done today. How true this is of salvation which is offered for today--now is the day of salvation. How many have been lost forever by procrastination, by thinking a more convenient time would come. Well has one said,...

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 Lit. ruthlessness of wrath, torrent of anger, or wrath is ruthlessness, anger a torrent. Proverbs 27:6. profuse: a doubtful translation of an obscure Heb. word, although Matthew 26:49 (viz. the force of κατὰ? in κατεφίλησεν) is quoted in support. AV deceitful depends upon an emendation following the Lat. Pr

ENVY. jealousy....

_envy_ Rather, JEALOUSY. Comp. Proverbs 6:34....