Proverbs 6:34-35

The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about anger produced by sin against you:

Proverbs 6:34-35 (NASBStr)

For jealousy enrages a man,

And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

 He will not accept any ransom,

Nor will he be satisfied though you give many gifts.

Proverbs 6:34 (ESV)

For jealousy makes a man furious,

and he will not spare when he takes revenge.

Solomon, in chapter six of Proverbs, is telling us about the results of living a life in folly.   He uses the experience of a man having an affair with a married women, the adulterous, as a metaphor.   Those who reject wisdom and "sleep" with folly can expect the same fate.   However, the metaphor is also a real treatise on adultery and the man who has an affair with a married women and that women's husband.  Solomon has already explained the corruption of the adulterous women.  He has already outlined what happens to the man who commits the adultery.   Now, in the last two verses of this chapter, we read what happens to the man who is the husband to the adulterous wife.  Solomon tells us that this man becomes full of jealousy and rage.   He has full capacity for vengeance.  He can't be persuaded to release the rage or the vengeance ...  no matter the amount of the gift or ransom ... assumably paid by the wife, or, more likely, the adulterous male.   Solomon is telling us that when a man's wife is taken by another man (despite the willingness or non-willingness of the wife) there is no way on earth this man can be pacified.   He only sees the red rage of anger.   There is nothing on EARTH that would appease him.  But there is Someone in heaven that can remove that type of anger.  Christ took all the wrath of God on Him on the cross to appease God's wrath.   Any righteous wrath that any man can produce has already been taken care of by Christ taking that wrath on Himself.   Any anger held in the heart of a man can be and should be released to Christ, as He died on the cross to take that wrath.   Man, the married man, has no capacity for forgiveness on his own.  It is only by faith in Christ's payment that a husband can release the anger he has for his wife and the adulterous man.   Earthly men will have earthly wrath that can't be appeased.  Men of faith can allow Christ to take that anger and release the husband from a life of hatred.