“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.
And the LORD made His people very fruitful, more numerous than their foes,
But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in m
Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass
A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.
For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?