Proverbs 14:30
A meek-spirited man is a healer of the heart: but a sensitive heart is a corruption of the bones.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
In Context
29A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom: but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish.
31He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker: but he that honours him has pity upon the poor.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:6For at this time to-morrow I will send my servants to you, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants, and it shall be that all the desirable objects of their eyes on which they shall lay their hands, they shall even take them.
Proverbs 3:8Then shall there be health to your body, and good keeping to your bones.
Proverbs 12:4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but as a worm in wood, so a bad woman destroys her husband.
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 →