¹⁴ For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.

⁴ And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

¹¹ And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind.

⁴ Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?

²² The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

¹³ Our store-houses are full of all good things; and our sheep give birth to thousands and ten thousands in our fields.

¹⁴ Our oxen are well weighted down; our cows give birth safely; there is no going out, and there is no cry of sorrow in our open places.

¹⁰ The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

³ A store of wealth will be in his house, and his righteousness will be for ever.

¹² And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

² For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

³ And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

⁹ And from that day Saul was looking with envy on David.

² Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

¹⁶ And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.