Quotes about Envy

You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”

And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”

And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.

When Saul saw that David was very successful, he was afraid of him.

Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

Do not be amazed when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.