Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the body; but jealousy is the rottenness of the bones.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 21:6And he said unto her, Because I spoke unto Naboth the Yizre'elite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee a vineyard in its stead; but he hath said, I will not give unto thee my vineyard.
Psalms 112:10The wicked shall see it, and be vexed; he will gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the longing of the wicked shall perish.
Proverbs 3:8It will be healing to thy body, and marrow to thy bones.
Proverbs 12:4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but as rottenness in his bones is one that bringeth shame [on him].
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 →