Proverbs 14:30

(The) Health of (the) heart is the life of (the) flesh; envy is (the) rot of (the) bones.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 patient, is governed by much wisdom; but he that is unpatient, enhanceth his folly.

31He that falsely challengeth a needy man, despiseth his maker; but he that hath mercy on a poor man, honoureth his maker. (He who oppresseth the needy, despiseth his Maker; but he who hath mercy on the poor, honoureth his Maker.)

Read all of Proverbs 14

Cross References

1 Kings 21:6Which answered to her, I spake to Naboth of Jezreel, and I said to him, Give thy vineyard to me for money taken, either if it pleaseth thee, I shall give to thee a better vinery for it. And he said, I shall not give to thee my vineyard.

Psalms 112:10A sinner shall see (it), and shall be wroth; he shall gnash with his teeth, and shall fail, either shall wax rotten; the desire of sinners shall perish.

Proverbs 3:8For why health shall be in thy navel, and moisting of thy bones. (For that shall be health for thy body, or thy entrails, and moistening for thy bones.)

Proverbs 12:4A diligent woman is a crown to her husband; and rot is in the bones of that woman, that doeth things worthy of confusion. (A diligent woman is a crown to her husband; but rot is in the bones of her, who doeth shameful things.)

Acts 7:9And the patriarchs had envy to Joseph, and sold him into Egypt. And God was with him,

2 Timothy 1:7For why God gave not to us the spirit of dread, but of virtue, and of love, and of soberness. (Because God did not give us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of resoluteness.)

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Proverbs 14:30