Proverbs 14:30
A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
In Context
29He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
31He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:6And he said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to 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 vineyar
Psalms 112:10A wicked man shall see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of wicked men shall perish.
Proverbs 3:8It will be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Proverbs 12:4A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but she who makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Acts 7:9And the patriarchs, being envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,
2 Timothy 1:7For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of soberness.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:30
29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. Note, 1. Meekness is wisdom. He rightly understands himself, and his duty and interest, the infirmities of human nature, and the constitution of human society, who is slow to anger, and knows how to excuse the faults of others as well as his own, how to adjourn his resentments, and moderate them, so as by no provocation to be put out of the possession of his own soul. A mild patient man is really to be accounted… Read the whole commentary →