Proverbs 14:30

Having a mind that is peaceful results in having a healthy body; having a mind that is often in turmoil is like [MET] cancer in a person’s bones.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

In Context

29Those who do not quickly become angry are very wise; by quickly becoming angry, people show that they are foolish.

31Those who oppress poor people are insulting God, the one who made those poor people, but acting kindly toward them is respecting God.

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:6Ahab replied, “I talked to Naboth, that man from Jezreel. I told him that I wanted his vineyard. I said, ‘I will buy it from you, or I will give you another vineyard for it.’ But he refused to let me have it.”

Psalms 112:10Wicked people see those things and are angry; they gnash their teeth angrily, but they will disappear and die. The wicked things that they want to do will never happen.

Proverbs 3:8If you do that, your body will be healthy/strong; it will be like medicine for you.

Proverbs 12:4A good wife is one who causes her husband to be greatly honored, but a wife who does things that cause her husband to be ashamed will destroy him like [SIM] cancer destroys his bones.

Acts 7:9“ You know that Jacob’s older sons became jealous because their father favored their younger brother Joseph. So they sold him to merchants/traders who took him [MTY] to Egypt. There he became a slave of an official who lived there. But God helped Joseph.

2 Timothy 1:7Remember that God has put his Spirit within us. His Spirit does not cause us to be afraid. Instead, he causes us to be powerful to work for God, and he helps us to love others and to control what we say and do.

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 →

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