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Proverbios 14:30
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El coraz�n apacible es vida de las carnes: Mas la envidia, pudrimiento de huesos.
El coraz�n apacible es vida de la carne; mas la envidia, es carcoma de los huesos.
El coraz�n apacible es vida a la carne; mas la envidia, pudrimiento de huesos.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
sound: Proverbs 4:23, Psalms 119:80, 2 Timothy 1:7
envy: Job 5:2, Psalms 112:10, Acts 7:9, Romans 1:29, James 4:5
rottenness: Proverbs 3:8, Proverbs 12:4, Proverbs 17:22
Reciprocal: Genesis 30:1 - Rachel envied Genesis 31:1 - Jacob 1 Kings 21:6 - Because Proverbs 27:4 - but Acts 5:17 - indignation Acts 17:5 - moved James 3:14 - if 1 Peter 2:1 - envies
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh,.... A heart made so by the grace of God, in which are sound principles of truth, righteousness, and holiness; these preserve from sin, and so from many diseases; whereby the life of the flesh or body is kept safe and sound, or that is kept in health and vigour; or a "quiet heart" h; a heart free from wrath, anger, and envy, and such like passions and perturbations; this contributes much to the health of the body, and the comfort of life: or a "healing heart", or "spirit" i; that is humane, kind, and friendly; that pities and heals the distresses of others, and makes up differences between persons at variance: such an one is "the life of fleshes" k, as in the original text; or of men, of the same flesh and blood; the life of others, as well as of his own flesh; such an one contributes to the comfortable living of others as well as of himself;
but envy the rottenness of the bones; a man that envies the happiness and prosperity of others, this preys upon his own spirits, and not only wastes his flesh, but weakens and consumes the stronger parts of his body, the bones; it is as a "moth" within him, as the Arabic version: the Targum is,
"as rottenness in wood, so is envy in the bones;''
hence Ovid l calls it "livor edax", and so Martial m.
h לב מרפא "cor leve", Baynus; "cor lene", Mercerus; "cor lenitatis", Gejerus, so Ben Melech. i "Animus sanans", Junius Tremellius, so the Tigurine version "sanator", Gussetius, p. 800. k חיי בשרים "vitae carnium", Montanus; "vita carnium", V. L. Pagninus, Michaelis. l Amorum, l. 1. Eleg. 15. v. 1. & de Remed. Amor. l. 1. in fine. m Epigr. l. 11. Ep. 21.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Sound heart - literally, “heart of health,” that in which all emotions and appetites are in a healthy equilibrium. The contrast with this is the envy which eats, like a consuming disease, into the very bones and marrow of a man’s moral life.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 14:30. A sound heart is the life of the flesh — A healthy state of the blood, and a proper circulation of that stream of life, is the grand cause, in the hand of God, of health and longevity. If the heart be diseased, life cannot be long continued.
