Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Webster Bible
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 slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
31He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoreth him hath mercy on the poor.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:6And he said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it pleaseth thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
Psalms 112:10The wicked shall see it , and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Proverbs 3:8It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Proverbs 12:4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Acts 7:9And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
2 Timothy 1:7For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
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 →