Proverbs 14:30
A sounde heart is the life of the flesh: but enuie is the rotting of the bones.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
In Context
29He that is slowe to wrath, is of great wisdome: but he that is of an hastie minde, exalteth follie.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:6And he said vnto her, Because I spake vnto Naboth the Izreelite, and sayd vnto him, Giue me thy vineyard for money, or if it please thee, I will giue thee another vineyard for it: but he answered, I wil not giue thee my vineyarde.
Psalms 112:10The wicked shall see it and be angrie: he shall gnash with his teeth, and consume away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Proverbs 3:8So health shalbe vnto thy nauel, and marowe vnto thy bones.
Proverbs 12:4A vertuous woman is the crowne of her husband: but she that maketh him ashamed, is as corruption in his bones.
Acts 7:9And the Patriarkes moued with enuie, solde Ioseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
2 Timothy 1:7For God hath not giuen to vs the Spirite of feare, but of power, and of loue, and of a sound minde.
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 →