Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry?(A) Why is your face downcast?

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And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

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Cursed be their anger, so fierce,
    and their fury,(A) so cruel!(B)
I will scatter them in Jacob
    and disperse them in Israel.(C)

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Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

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But a prophet of the Lord named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, “Because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, was angry(A) with Judah, he gave them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches to heaven.(B)

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But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the Lord God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.

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Resentment(A) kills a fool,
    and envy slays the simple.(B)

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For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

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29 you should fear the sword yourselves;
    for wrath will bring punishment by the sword,(A)
    and then you will know that there is judgment.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:29 Or sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty

29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

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Refrain from anger(A) and turn from wrath;
    do not fret(B)—it leads only to evil.

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Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

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