Proverbs 14:30
A peaceful mind makes your body healthy, but jealousy makes your bones rot.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
In Context
29If you're slow to get angry, you're very wise; but if you have a short fuse you glorify stupidity.
31Anyone who oppresses the poor insults their Maker, but anyone who is kind to the needy honors him.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:6Ahab replied, “It's because I talked with Naboth from Jezreel and I asked him, ‘Give me your vineyard for cash, or if you want, I'll give you another vineyard instead.’ But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”
Psalms 112:10The wicked observe all this and are mad; they gnash their teeth in anger. They waste away, and all that they hoped for comes to nothing.
Proverbs 3:8Then you will be healed and made strong.
Proverbs 12:4A good wife is a crown for her husband, but one who brings shame is like rot in his bones.
Acts 7:9The patriarchs, who were jealous of Joseph, sold him into slavery in Egypt. But God was with him,
2 Timothy 1:7God didn't give us a spirit that makes us fearful, but a spirit of power and love and good sense.
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 →