Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the flesh; but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
In Context
29He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:6And he said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jizreelite and said to him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee a vineyard for it; and he said, I will not give thee my vineyard.
Psalms 112:10The wicked [man] shall see [it] and be vexed; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Proverbs 3:8it shall be health for thy navel, and moisture for thy bones.
Proverbs 12:4A woman of worth is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Acts 7:9And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,
2 Timothy 1:7For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion.
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 →