Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. New Living Translation A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones. English Standard Version A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot. Berean Standard Bible A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones. King James Bible A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. New King James Version A sound heart is life to the body, But envy is rottenness to the bones. New American Standard Bible A tranquil heart is life to the body, But jealousy is rottenness to the bones. NASB 1995 A tranquil heart is life to the body, But passion is rottenness to the bones. NASB 1977 A tranquil heart is life to the body, But passion is rottenness to the bones. Legacy Standard Bible A tranquil heart is life to the body, But jealousy is rottenness to the bones. Amplified Bible A calm and peaceful and tranquil heart is life and health to the body, But passion and envy are like rottenness to the bones. Christian Standard Bible A tranquil heart is life to the body, but jealousy is rottenness to the bones. Holman Christian Standard Bible A tranquil heart is life to the body, but jealousy is rottenness to the bones. American Standard Version A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh; But envy is the rottenness of the bones. Aramaic Bible in Plain English He that cools his anger is a healer of his heart, and envy is the decay of the bones. Brenton Septuagint Translation A meek-spirited man is a healer of the heart: but a sensitive heart is a corruption of the bones. Contemporary English Version It's healthy to be content, but envy can eat you up. Douay-Rheims Bible Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh: but envy is the rottenness of the bones. English Revised Version A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy is the rottenness of the bones. GOD'S WORD® Translation A tranquil heart makes for a healthy body, but jealousy is [like] bone cancer. Good News Translation Peace of mind makes the body healthy, but jealousy is like a cancer. International Standard Version A tranquil mind brings life to one's body, but jealousy causes one's bones to rot. JPS Tanakh 1917 A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh; But envy is the rottenness of the bones. Literal Standard Version A healed heart [is] life to the flesh, | And rottenness to the bones [is] envy. Majority Standard Bible A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones. New American Bible A tranquil mind gives life to the body, but jealousy rots the bones. NET Bible A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones. New Revised Standard Version A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh, but passion makes the bones rot. New Heart English Bible The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Young's Literal Translation A healed heart is life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones is envy. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Wise Woman…29A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly. 30A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones. 31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.… Cross References Proverbs 12:4 A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones. Proverbs 15:13 A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit. Habakkuk 3:16 I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us. Treasury of Scripture A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. sound Proverbs 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Psalm 119:80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed. 2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. envy Job 5:2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. Psalm 112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish. Acts 7:9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, rottenness Proverbs 3:8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. Proverbs 12:4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones. Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Jump to Previous Body Bones Disease Envy Flesh Gives Healed Heart Life Makes Mind Passion Peace Quiet Rot Rottenness Sound TranquilJump to Next Body Bones Disease Envy Flesh Gives Healed Heart Life Makes Mind Passion Peace Quiet Rot Rottenness Sound TranquilProverbs 14 1. A wise woman builds her house(30) A sound heart--i.e., one in healthy condition, of which the passions and emotions are under control.Verse 30. - A sound heart is the life of the flesh. The heart that is healthy, morally and physically, spreads its beneficent influence over the whole body in all its functions and relations; this is expressed by the word for "flesh" (besarim), being in the plural number, as the Vulgate renders, vita carnium, but the contrast is better developed by taking מרפא in its other signification of "calm," "gentle," "meek," as Ecclesiastes 10:4. Thus the Septuagint, "The man of gentle mind (πραυ'´θυμος) is the physician of the heart." The tranquil, well controlled heart gives health and vigor to the whole frame (see on Proverbs 15:4). But envy is the rottenness of the bones (Proverbs 12:4). Envy, like a canker, eats away a man's life and strength; it tells on his physical as well as his moral condition. We hays parallel expressions in classical authors. Thus Horace, 'Epist.,' 1:257 - "Invidus alterius macrescit rebus opimis." Martial, 'Epigr.,' 5:28 - "Rubiginosis cuncta dentibus rodit; Hebrew A tranquilמַרְפֵּ֑א (mar·pê) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4832: Curative, a medicine, a cure, deliverance, placidity heart לֵ֣ב (lêḇ) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre is life חַיֵּ֣י (ḥay·yê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life to the body, בְ֭שָׂרִים (ḇə·śā·rîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man but envy קִנְאָֽה׃ (qin·’āh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7068: Ardor, zeal, jealousy rots וּרְקַ֖ב (ū·rə·qaḇ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 7538: Rottenness, decay the bones. עֲצָמ֣וֹת (‘ă·ṣā·mō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame Links Proverbs 14:30 NIVProverbs 14:30 NLT Proverbs 14:30 ESV Proverbs 14:30 NASB Proverbs 14:30 KJV Proverbs 14:30 BibleApps.com Proverbs 14:30 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 14:30 Chinese Bible Proverbs 14:30 French Bible Proverbs 14:30 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 14:30 The life of the body (Prov. 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