Psalms 37:8

Psalms 37:8 in other translations

What does Psalms 37:8 mean?

Psalms 37:8 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Psalms 37:8

• Proverbs 14:29

  He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

• Proverbs 16:32

  He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

• James 1:19-20

  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

• Ephesians 4:31

  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

• Ephesians 4:26

  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

• Job 5:2

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

• James 3:14-18

  But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. …

• Colossians 3:8

  But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

• Job 18:4

  He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

• Jonah 4:1

  But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

• 1 Samuel 25:21-23

  Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good. So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall. And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

• Luke 9:54-55

  And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.

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Context

• Psalms 37:7

  Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

• Psalms 37:8

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

• Psalms 37:9

  For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.

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