Genesis 31:1

Jacob hears Laban's sons accusing him of taking their father's wealth. Resentment in Laban's household grows against Jacob.

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• Eccl 4:4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
• Matt 4:8Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
• Ps 64:3–4Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
• Ps 17:14From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Jer 9:23Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
• Ps 57:4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Esth 5:11And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
• Isa 5:14Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
• Gen 31:8–9If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
• Prov 14:30A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
• Prov 27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
• Gen 45:13And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
• Job 31:31If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
• 1 Tim 6:4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
• Job 31:24–25If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
• Ps 120:3–5What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
• Ps 49:16–17Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
• Ezek 16:44Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
• 1 Pet 1:24For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

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