For jealousy is a husband’s fury; Therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Parallel translations
- WEB For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.
- KJV For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
- BSB For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.
- NASB For jealousy enrages a man, And he will not have compassion on the day of vengeance.
- NLT For the woman’s jealous husband will be furious, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
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Quick answer
A wronged husband's jealous fury knows no mercy in his day of vengeance. Adultery provokes relentless wrath.
Overview
The father warns that the betrayed husband's jealousy will burn without restraint when the day of retribution comes. The intensity of such anger underscores the personal devastation adultery unleashes. It reveals that this sin tears at the deepest bonds of trust between people.
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Cross-references · 6
- Song 8:6Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.
- Prov 27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
- Num 5:14and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn’t defiled:
- 1 Cor 10:22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
- Num 25:11“Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
- Judg 19:29–30When he had come into his house, he took a knife, and cut up his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.
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