Proverbs 14:30
Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh: but envy is the rottenness of the bones.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.
31He that oppresseth the poor, upbraideth his Maker: but he that hath pity on the poor, honoureth him.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:6And he answered her: I spoke to Naboth the Jezrahelite, and said to him: Give me thy vineyard, and take money for it: or if it please thee, I will give thee a better vineyard for it. And he said: I will not give thee my vineyard.
Psalms 112:10The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Proverbs 3:8For it shall be health to thy navel, and moistening to thy bones.
Proverbs 12:4A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is a rottenness in his bones.
Acts 7:9And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt; and God was with him,
2 Timothy 1:7For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and of sobriety.
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 →