Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
A sound heart is the life of the flesh, but envy the rottenness of the bones.
New American Standard Bible
But passion is
King James Version
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Holman Bible
but jealousy is rottenness to the bones.
International Standard Version
A tranquil mind brings life to one's body, but jealousy causes one's bones to rot.
A Conservative Version
A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.
American Standard Version
A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh; But envy is the rottenness of the bones.
Amplified
A calm and peaceful and tranquil heart is life and health to the body,
But passion and envy are like rottenness to the bones.
Bible in Basic English
A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.
Darby Translation
A sound heart is the life of the flesh; but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Julia Smith Translation
A heart of healing, the life of the flesh: and jealousy the rottenness of the bones.
King James 2000
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A heart of tranquility [is] life [to the] flesh, but causes bones of passion to rot.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A merry heart is the life of the body; but rancor consumeth away the bones.
NET Bible
A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.
New Heart English Bible
The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
The Emphasized Bible
The life of the whole body, is a tranquil mind, but, a decay of the bones, is jealousy.
Webster
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
World English Bible
The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
Youngs Literal Translation
A healed heart is life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones is envy.
Themes
Interlinear
Leb
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 14:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
29 He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly. 30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh, but envy the rottenness of the bones. 31 He who presses the poor curses his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy upon the poor.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:4
A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband, but she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones.
Psalm 112:10
The wicked shall see and be vexed; he shall gnash with his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
James 4:5
Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us yearns to envy?
Job 5:2
For vexation kills the fool, and envy slays the simple one.
Psalm 119:80
Let my heart be sound in Your Precepts, so that I may not be ashamed.
Proverbs 3:8
Healing shall be to your navel and marrow to your bones.
Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Proverbs 17:22
A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.
Acts 7:9
And being jealous of Joseph, the patriarchs sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him
Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,