A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
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Gill's Exposition
A sound heart is the life of the flesh,.... A heart made so by the grace of God, in which are sound principles of truth, righteousness, and holiness; these preserve from sin, and so from many…
Barnes' Notes
Sound heart - literally, “heart of health,” that in which all emotions and appetites are in a healthy equilibrium. The contrast with this is the envy which eats, like a consuming disease, into the…
Matthew Henry
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…
Cambridge Bible
sound Or, tranquil, R.V. marg. (deriving the word from another root). See Pro 15:4 and comp. Ecc 10:4, where the same Heb. word is rendered, yielding, or gentleness, A.V. and R.V.
envy Or, jealousy,…
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