Pro 14:30
A sound heart {is} the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
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A merry heart doeth good {like} a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. {like: or, to}
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it {are} the issues of life. {with...: Heb. above all keeping}
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. {health: Heb. medicine} {marrow: Heb. watering, or, moistening}
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. {envy: or, indignation}
A virtuous woman {is} a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed {is} as rottenness in his bones.
Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
The wicked shall see {it}, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? {to envy: or, enviously?}
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
A virtuous woman {is} a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed {is} as rottenness in his bones.
Wrath {is} cruel, and anger {is} outrageous; but who {is} able to stand before envy? {Wrath...: Heb. Wrath is cruelty, and anger an overflowing} {envy: or, jealousy?}
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that {was} our father's; and of {that} which {was} our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, {indignation: or, envy}
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee {another} vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.