Job 5:2
1 “Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
3 I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
4 His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
- KJV
- For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
- WEB
- For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
- ASV
- For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.
- DARBY
- For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple.
- BLB
- For indignation kills the foolish, and jealousy kills the simple.
- ÅB
- For harme slår dåren ihjel, og vrede dreper den tåpelige.
- OTB
- For irritasjon dreper dåren,
Og sjalusi bringer død til den naive. - B1930
- For harme slår dåren ihjel, og vrede dreper den tåpelige.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
Read in contextJob 18:4
You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
Read in contextHosea 7:11
So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove— calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
Read in contextPsalms 92:6
A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
Read in contextPsalms 14:1
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
Read in contextGenesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
Read in context1 Samuel 18:8–9
And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”
Read in contextPsalms 75:4
I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.
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