2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy [1] slayeth the silly one.

Other Translations of Job 5:2

New International Version

2 Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

English Standard Version

2 Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

The Message

2 The hot temper of a fool eventually kills him, the jealous anger of a simpleton does her in.

New King James Version

2 For wrath kills a foolish man, And envy slays a simple one.

New Living Translation

2 Surely resentment destroys the fool, and jealousy kills the simple.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 5:2

Commentary on Job 5:1-5

(Read Job 5:1-5)

Eliphaz here calls upon Job to answer his arguments. Were any of the saints or servants of God visited with such Divine judgments as Job, or did they ever behave like him under their sufferings? The term, "saints," holy, or more strictly, consecrated ones, seems in all ages to have been applied to the people of God, through the Sacrifice slain in the covenant of their reconciliation. Eliphaz doubts not that the sin of sinners directly tends to their ruin. They kill themselves by some lust or other; therefore, no doubt, Job has done some foolish thing, by which he has brought himself into this condition. The allusion was plain to Job's former prosperity; but there was no evidence of Job's wickedness, and the application to him was unfair and severe.