Job 5:2

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Job 5:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

2 For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

3 I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

4 His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 18:4

You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

Jonah 4:9

Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”

Psalms 14:1

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.

Psalms 75:4

I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.

Psalms 92:6

A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,

Psalms 107:17

Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:23

If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

Proverbs 8:5

O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.

Genesis 30:1

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.

1 Samuel 18:8

And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”

1 Samuel 18:9

And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

Romans 2:8

But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.

Hosea 7:11

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove— calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

2 Timothy 3:6

They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,