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Job 5:2
2Foolish people may be angry and jealous. That is what kills them.
Job 5:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
- New International Version (NIV)Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For wrath kills a foolish man, And envy slays a simple one.
Context of Job 5:2
1‘Shout for help, Job! But no one will answer you. None of the angels will come to help you. Foolish people may be angry and jealous. That is what kills them. 3I have seen fools who seemed to be successful. But suddenly a curse destroyed their homes. 4Their children are never truly safe. The judge says that they are guilty, and nobody saves them from punishment.
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כִּֽי־לֶֽ֭אֱוִיל יַהֲרָג־כָּ֑עַשׂ וּ֝פֹתֶ֗ה תָּמִ֥ית קִנְאָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 5:2
- Job 18:4You are so angry that you are hurting yourself. You will never change the way that things happen in the world. Your anger will not cause the earth to shake, or any rocks to move from their places.
- Jonah 4:9But God said to Jonah, ‘You are not right to be so angry about the plant.’ Jonah said, ‘I am right to be angry! I am so angry that I want to die.’
- Psalms 14:1Only fools say to themselves, ‘There is no God.’ People like that do bad and evil things. None of them do things that are good and right.
- Psalms 75:4I say to people who are proud, ‘Do not be proud.’ I say to wicked people, ‘Do not boast about your power.
- Psalms 92:6Here is something that stupid people do not know. Fools do not understand it.
- Psalms 107:17Some people became fools and they turned against God. They had trouble and pain because of their sins.
- Proverbs 1:22‘Listen to me! Will you silly people continue to be so silly? You people who laugh at God, will you always be like that? Will fools always refuse to learn anything?
- Proverbs 8:5You who are silly, learn to be wise! You who are fools, learn to understand what is right.
- Ecclesiastes 7:9Control your angry thoughts. Only fools allow their anger to continue.
- Genesis 30:1Rachel now knew that she could not give birth to any children for Jacob. So she became jealous of her sister. Rachel said to Jacob, ‘Please give me children. If not, I will die.’
- 1 Samuel 18:8Saul did not like this song. He became very angry. He thought, ‘The women say that David has killed tens of thousands of men. But they say that I have only killed thousands of men. They will soon want David to be their king.’
- Romans 2:8But other people think only about themselves. They refuse to obey God's true message. Instead, they continue to do things that are wrong. God will be very angry with people like that and he will punish them.
- Hosea 7:11Ephraim has become like a silly dove. He cannot decide where to go. The Israelites ask Egypt to help them. Then they decide to ask Assyria instead.
- 2 Timothy 3:6Among those people, there are some men who find a way into people's homes. They get power over silly women who feel very guilty about their sins. Those women want to do wrong things and they cannot stop themselves.
Commentaries on Job 5:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2For wrath killeth the foolish man - Foolish, silly, and simple, are epithets given by Solomon to sinners and transgressors of all kinds. Such parallelisms have afforded a presumptive argument that Solomon was the author of this book. See the preface. The words of Eliphaz may be considered as a sort of maxim, which the wisdom and experience of ages had served to establish; viz., The wrath of God is manifested only against the wicked and impious; and if…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2For wrath killeth the foolish man - That is, the wrath of God. The word foolish here is used as synonymous with wicked, because wickedness is supreme folly. The general proposition here is, that the wicked are cut off, and that they are overtaken with heavy calamities in this life. In proof of this, Eliphaz appeals in the following verses to his own observation: The implied inference is, that Job, having had all his possessions taken away, and having been…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. wrath ... envy--fretful and passionate complaints, such as Eliphaz charged Job with (Job 4:5; so Pr 14:30). Not, the wrath of God killeth the foolish, and His envy, &c.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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