New Revised Standard Version
A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh, but passion makes the bones rot.

Contemporary English Version
It's healthy to be content, but envy can eat you up.

New American Bible
A tranquil mind gives life to the body, but jealousy rots the bones.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh: but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh: but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

sound

Proverbs 4:23 Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.

Psalm 119:80 Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not be confounded.

2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power and of love and of sobriety.

envy

Job 5:2 Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.

Psalm 112:10 The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Acts 7:9 And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,

Romans 1:29 Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,

James 4:5 Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?

rottenness

Proverbs 3:8 Honour the Lord with thy substance, and give him of the first of all thy fruits;

Proverbs 12:4 The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

Proverbs 17:22 A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.