Proverbs 14:30
A lev marpeh (sound mind) is life to the basar, 1 but kinah (envy) is the rottenness of the atzmot (bones). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 Navot the Yizre'eli and said unto him, Give me thy kerem (vineyard) for kesef; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another kerem (vineyard) in its place; but he answered, I will not give thee my kerem (vineyard).
Psalms 112:10The rasha shall see it, and be incensed; 1 he shall gnash his teeth, and waste away; 1 the ta'avot resha'im (desire of the wicked ones) shall come to nothing.
Proverbs 3:8It shall be rife'ut (health) to thy navel, 1 and marrow to thy atzmot. 1
Proverbs 12:4An aishes chayil (a woman of valor, an excellent wife) is an ateret to her ba'al, 1 but she that bringeth shame is like rottenness in his atzmot. 1
Acts 7:9And the Avot had kinah toward Yosef and sold him into Mitzrayim (Egypt), and Hashem was with him. + 7:9 Gn 37:4; 11:28; 37:28; Ps 105:17; Gn 39:1,2,21,23; 45:4; Hag 2:4
2 Timothy 1:7For Hashem did not bestow upon us a ruach of pachad (terror), but of gevurah (miraculous power) and of ahavah (love) and of sound havchanah (judgment).
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 →