Cross references
Job 5:2
For resentment kills a fool,
and envy slays the simple.
Job 5:2 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 7:9 (6 votes) and Genesis 30:1 (3 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Genesis 4 to James 3.
Which verses does Job 5:2 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Ecclesiastes 7:96 votes
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
- Genesis 30:13 votes
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 18:8–93 votes
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?” And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.
- Job 18:43 votes
You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
- Psalm 14:13 votes
For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
- Psalm 75:43 votes
I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.
- Psalm 92:63 votes
A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
- Psalm 107:173 votes
Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
- Proverbs 12:163 votes
A fool’s anger is known at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
- Hosea 7:113 votes
So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
- Romans 2:83 votes
- Proverbs 1:22–232 votes
- Jonah 4:92 votes
- 2 Timothy 3:62 votes
- Proverbs 8:51 vote
Which verses point to Job 5:2?
The 10 strongest of 21.