Devine Scripture

Job 5:2

Job chapter 5 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.

Context

v.1Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?

v.2This passage

v.3I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Samuel 18:8

    And Saul was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?

  • Proverbs 1:22

    How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?

  • Hosea 7:11

    And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.

  • 2 Timothy 3:6

    For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,

  • Psalms 107:17

    Fools because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

  • Ecclesiastes 7:9

    Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.