Genesis 30:1

Jacob's Children

¹ When Rachel saw that she conceived no children for Jacob, she envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.” ² Then Jacob became furious with Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has denied you children?”

Jacob

Leah

No

Rachel

Genesis 29:31

Now when the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He made her able to bear children, but Rachel was barren.

Genesis 37:11

Joseph’s brothers were envious and jealous of him, but his father kept the words [of Joseph] in mind [wondering about their meaning].

Genesis 35:16-19

Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath (Bethlehem), Rachel began to give birth and had difficulty and suffered severely.

Numbers 11:15

So if this is the way You are going to deal with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”

Numbers 11:29

But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!”

1 Samuel 1:4-8

When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions [of the sacrificial meat] to Peninnah his wife and all her sons and daughters.

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Job 3:1-3

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

Job 3:11

“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?

Job 3:20-22

“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,

Job 5:2

“For anger slays the foolish man,
And jealousy kills the simple (naive).

Job 13:19

“Who will argue and contend with me?
For then I would be silent and die.

Psalm 106:16

They envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron [the high priest], the holy one of the Lord,

Proverbs 14:30

A calm and peaceful and tranquil heart is life and health to the body,
But passion and envy are like rottenness to the bones.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

I have seen that every [effort in] labor and every skill in work comes from man’s rivalry with his neighbor. This too is vanity (futility, false pride) and chasing after the wind.

Jeremiah 20:14-18

Cursed be the day on which I was born;
Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!

John 4:3

He left Judea and returned again to Galilee.

John 4:8

For His disciples had gone off into the city to buy food—

1 Corinthians 3:3

You are still worldly [controlled by ordinary impulses, the sinful capacity]. For as long as there is jealousy and strife and discord among you, are you not unspiritual, and are you not walking like ordinary men [unchanged by faith]?

2 Corinthians 7:10

For [godly] sorrow that is in accord with the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation; but worldly sorrow [the hopeless sorrow of those who do not believe] produces death.

Galatians 5:21

envy, drunkenness, riotous behavior, and other things like these. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Titus 3:3

For we too once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various sinful desires and pleasures, spending and wasting our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant, and [as a result] be in defiance of the truth.

James 4:5

Or do you think that the Scripture says to no purpose that the [human] spirit which He has made to dwell in us lusts with envy?