Genesis 30:1

Jacob's Children

¹ When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die!” she said to Jacob. ² Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld children from you?”

Jacob

Leah

No

Rachel

Genesis 29:31

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive.

Genesis 37:11

His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

Genesis 35:16-19

They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

Numbers 11:15

If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now. If You are pleased with me, don’t let me see my misery anymore.”

Numbers 11:29

But Moses asked him, “Are you jealous on my account? If only all the Lord’s people were prophets and the Lord would place His Spirit on them!”

1 Samuel 1:4-8

Whenever Elkanah offered a sacrifice, he always gave portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to each of her sons and daughters.

1 Kings 19:4

but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.”

Job 3:1-3

After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born.

Job 3:11

Why was I not stillborn;
why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?

Job 3:20-22

Why is light given to one burdened with grief,
and life to those whose existence is bitter,

Job 5:2

For anger kills a fool,
and jealousy slays the gullible.

Job 13:19

Can anyone indict me?
If so, I will be silent and die.

Psalm 106:16

In the camp they were envious of Moses
and of Aaron, the Lord’s holy one.

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil heart is life to the body,
but jealousy is rottenness to the bones.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to a man’s jealousy of his friend. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Jeremiah 20:14-18

May the day I was born
be cursed.
May the day my mother bore me
never be blessed.

John 4:3

He left Judea and went again to Galilee.

John 4:8

for His disciples had gone into town to buy food.

1 Corinthians 3:3

because you are still fleshly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and living like unbelievers?

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death.

Galatians 5:21

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth.

James 4:5

Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?