Proverbs 14:30

“The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil, etc.] Rubs it off and scours it away, as the wordf567 signifies, or is a clearing and rubbing it off; some men must be beaten black and blue, or must have very sore correction, before they can be reclaimed and reformed from their evil ways; so some interpret it of the evil manf568: sanctified afflictions to God’s people are the means of purging away their iniquities, their dross, and their sin; but there is nothing so effectually cleanses from sin as the blood of Jesus, or heals or cures of it as his blue wounds and stripes; (see <232709>Isaiah 27:9 53:5); so [do] stripes the inward part of the belly; or heart and conscience; by means of…”

“A sound heart--both literally and figuratively, a source of health; in the latter sense, opposed to the known effect of evil passions on health.”

“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 very bones and marrow of a man’s moral life. return to 'Top of Page'”

“A sound heart - Free from envy and inordinate passions. Is life - Procures and maintains the health and vigour of the body. Proverbs 14:31”

“14:30 A peaceful heart has resolved its inner tensions. Freedom from jealousy is beneficial to physical health.”

“sound: Pro 4:23; Psa 119:80; Ti2 1:7 envy: Job 5:2; Psa 112:10; Act 7:9; Rom 1:29; Jam 4:5 rottenness: Pro 3:8, Pro 12:4, Pro 17:22 Proverbs 14:31”

“30 A quiet heart is the life of the body, But covetousness is rottenness in the bones. Heart, soul, flesh, is the O.T. trichotomy, Psa 84:3; Psa 16:9; the heart is the innermost region of the life, where all the rays of the bodily and the soul-life concentrate, and whence they again unfold themselves. The state of the heart, i.e., of the central, spiritual, soul-inwardness of the man, exerts therefore on all sides a constraining influence on the bodily life, in the relation to the heart the surrounding life. Regarding לב מרפּא, vid., at Pro 12:18. Thus is styled the quiet heart, which in its symmetrical harmony is like a calm and clear water-mirror, neither interrupted by the affections, nor…”