Job 5:2
Hebrew Text— Job 5:2For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
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A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.
The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;
He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.
Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”
It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.
If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.
to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:
“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.
It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.
They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.
Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,
For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.
But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.
Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.
But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy
For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”
Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.
The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.
Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?
The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria.
Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.
You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.
A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!
A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.
The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.