Proverbs 14:30
WEB
The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
BSB
A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
KJV
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H2416
a n-m n-f — alive, raw, fresh, strong, life
Derivation: from 2421;
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV: age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, merry, multitude, (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
adj — alive
חַי adj. alive, living
1.
a. of God, as the living one, the fountain of life
b. of man
c. of animals, alive, living
d. animals and man
e. (dub.) of vegetation, as thorns, green
f. of water, fresh
2. (dub.) lively, active
3. reviving
n.f — living thing
חַיָּה n.f. living thing, animal
1. animal
a. in general
b. wild animals, on account of their vital energy and activity
c. living beings, of the cherubic chariot
2. life, only in late poetry
3. appetite, activity of hunger
4. revival, renewal
n.f — community
חַיָּה n.f. community
n.m — life
חַיִּים n.m. pl. abstr. emph. life
1. life: physical
2. life: as welfare and happiness in king's presence
3. sustenance, maintenance
H1320
n-m — flesh, freshness, body, person, pudenda
Derivation: from 1319;
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man
KJV: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-) kind, nakedness, self, skin.
n.m — flesh
בָּשָׂר 266 n.m. flesh
1. of the body
2. flesh for the body itself
3. male organ of generation (euphemism)
4. flesh for kindred, blood-relations
5. man over against God as frail or erring
H3820
n-m — heart, feelings, will, intellect, centre
Derivation: a form of 3824;
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV: care for, comfortably, consent, × considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart(-ed), × heed, × I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), × regard(-ed), × themselves, × unawares, understanding, × well, willingly, wisdom.
n.m — inner man
לֵב 599 n.m. (f.) inner man, mind, will, heart
I. seldom of things in the midst of the sea
II. elsewhere of men
1. the inner man in contrast with the outer
2. the inner man, indef., soul, comprehending mind, affections and will
3. specific reference to mind
4. spec. ref. to inclinations, resolutions and determinations of the will
5. spec. ref. to conscience
6. [various]
7. for the man himself
8. as seat of appetites
9. as seat of emotions and passions
10. seat of courage
H4832
n-m — curative, medicine, cure, deliverance, placidity
Derivation: from 7495;
properly, curative, i.e. literally (concretely) a medicine, or (abstractly) a cure; figuratively (concretely) deliverance, or (abstractly) placidity
KJV: (in-)cure(-able), healing(-lth), remedy, sound, wholesome, yielding.
n.m — healing
מַרְפֵּא, מַרְפֵּה n.m. healing, cure, health (usu. fig.)
H7538
n-m — decay
Derivation: from 7537;
decay (by caries)
KJV: rottenness (thing).
n.[m.] — rottenness
רָקָב n.[m.] rottenness, decay
H6106
n-f — bone, strong, body, substance, selfsame
Derivation: from 6105;
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
KJV: body, bone, × life, (self-) same, strength, × very.
n.f — bone
עֶ֫צֶם 125 n.f. bone, substance, self
H7068
n-f — jealousy, envy
Derivation: from 7065;
jealousy or envy
KJV: envy(-ied), jealousy, × sake, zeal.
n.f — ardour
קִנְאָה n.f. ardour, zeal, jealousy
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Verse 30
Proverbs 14:30
The foregoing verse showed how much our reputation, this how much our health, depends on the good government of our passions and the preserving of the temper of the mind. 1. A healing spirit, made up of love and meekness, a hearty, friendly, cheerful disposition, is the life of the flesh; it contributes to a good constitution of body; people grow fat with good humour. 2. A fretful, envious, discontented spirit, is its own punishment; it consumes the flesh, preys upon the animal spirits, makes the countenance pale, and is the rottenness of the bones. Those that see the prosperity of others and are grieved, let them gnash with their teeth and melt away, Psa 112:10.
Rumpatur, quisquis rumpitur invidia.
Whoever bursts for envy, let him burst.
Cross-references: Ps 112:10