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Three overwhelming emotions are weighed in Proverbs 27:4: Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, but who can stand before jealousy? (v. 4).
Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood are devastating in their own right. Wrath has the heat to consume. Anger sweeps through a relationship like rising water, drowning what was loved.
But who can stand before jealousy? This emotion is named as worse than both. The reason is that jealousy is sustained, calculating, and resourceful in ways that hot anger is not. The jealous man does not have one outburst and then cool; he plans, watches, schemes. Song of Solomon 8:6 names jealousy as cruel as the grave. The verse warns the wise reader against producing jealousy in others through carelessness, and against nursing it in himself, because what jealousy unleashes resists every defense.
Used with permission from TheBibleSays.com.
You can access the original article here:Proverbs 27:4 Meaning
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