◄ Proverbs 6:34 {35} ►
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Good News Translation
A husband is never angrier than when he is jealous; his revenge knows no limits.

New Revised Standard Version
For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge.

Contemporary English Version
because a jealous husband can be furious and merciless when he takes revenge.

New American Bible
For passion enrages the husband, he will have no pity on the day of vengeance;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nor will he yield to any man's prayers, nor will he accept for satisfaction ever so many gifts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nor will he yield to any man's prayers, nor will he accept for satisfaction ever so many gifts.

Proverbs 27:4 Anger hath no mercy: nor fury, when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

Numbers 5:14 If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,

Numbers 25:11 Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal.

Judges 19:29,30 And when he was come home, he took a sword, and divided the dead body of his wife with her bones into twelve parts, and sent the pieces into all the borders of Israel. . . .

Songs 8:6 Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames.

1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.

Context
Warnings Against Adultery
…33Because the jealousy and rage of the husband will not spare in the day of revenge, 34Nor will he yield to any man's prayers, nor will he accept for satisfaction ever so many gifts.35My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,…
Cross References
Genesis 39:19
His master hearing these things, and giving too much credit to his wife's words, was very angry,

Numbers 5:14
If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,

Proverbs 6:33
Because the jealousy and rage of the husband will not spare in the day of revenge,

Proverbs 6:35
My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,

Proverbs 11:4
The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.

Proverbs 27:4
Anger hath no mercy: nor fury, when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

Songs 8:6
Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames.

Isaiah 13:17
Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:

Proverbs 6:33
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