Proverbs 14:30
A healed heart [is] life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones [is] envy.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
In Context
29Whoso is slow to anger [is] of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.
31An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:6And he saith unto her, 'Because I speak unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and say to him, Give to me thy vineyard for money, or if thou desire, I give to thee a vineyard in its stead; and he saith, I do not give to thee my vineyard.'
Psalms 112:10The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!
Proverbs 3:8Healing it is to thy navel, And moistening to thy bones.
Proverbs 12:4A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones [is] one causing shame.
Acts 7:9and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,
2 Timothy 1:7for God did not give us a 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 →