Job 5:2
For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
BSB
ASV
For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.
KJV
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly man. MORAL INTERPRETATION. Which same sentence would have been true, had it not been delivered against the patience of so great a man. But let us weigh well the thing that is said, though it be made to recoil by the virtue of his hearer, that we may shew how right the matter is, which is put forth, if it were not unjustly put forth against blessed Job; since it is written, But Thou, Lord, Judgest with tranquillity.
For 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 thou wert not such, God would not thus contend with thee.
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Psalms 14:1The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
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In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
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Ecclesiastes 7:9Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
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My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, and a devious man is hated.
He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.
“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,