Proverbs 27:4 (BSB)

Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

From Proverbs 27. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 27:4

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 27:3-4: These two verses show the intolerable mischief, 1. Of ungoverned passion. The wrath of a fool, who when he is provoked cares not what he says and does, is more grievous than a great stone or a load of sand. It lies heavily upon himself. Those who have no command of their passions do themselves even sink under the load of them.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 27:4: 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 27:4: envy--or, "jealousy" (compare Margin; Pro 6:34), is more unappeasable than the simpler bad passions.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 27:4: Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy? (b) For the envious are obstinate, and cannot be reconciled.