Genesis 30 (KJV) - Bible Truth Library

Rachel envied.Envy and jealousy are most tormenting passions to the breast which harbours them, vexatious to all around, and introductory to much impatience and ungodliness.

"Who is able to stand before envy?"

Gen. 37:11• ¹¹And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying. (Gen. 37:11)

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1 Sam. 1:4‑8• ⁴And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
⁵But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb.
⁶And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.
⁷And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
⁸Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons? (1 Sam. 1:4‑8)

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Psa. 106:16• ¹⁶They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord. (Psa. 106:16)

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Prov. 14:30• ³⁰A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. (Prov. 14:30)

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Eccl. 4:4• ⁴Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. (Eccl. 4:4)

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1 Cor. 3:3• ³For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? (1 Cor. 3:3)

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Gal. 5:21• ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (Gal. 5:21)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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James 3:14• ¹⁴But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. (James 3:14)

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James 4:5• ⁵Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? (James 4:5)

or else I die.

Gen. 35:16‑19• ¹⁶And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.
¹⁷And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
¹⁸And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
¹⁹And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. (Gen. 35:16‑19)

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Gen. 37:11• ¹¹And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying. (Gen. 37:11)

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Num. 11:15,29• ¹⁵And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
²⁹And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them! (Num. 11:15,29)

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1 Kings 19:4• ⁴But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. (1 Kings 19:4)

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Job 3:1‑3,11,20‑22• ¹After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
²And Job spake, and said,
³Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
¹¹Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
²⁰Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
²¹Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
²²Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? (Job 3:1‑3,11,20‑22)

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Job 5:2• ²For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. (Job 5:2)

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Job 13:19• ¹⁹Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. (Job 13:19)

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Jer. 20:14‑18• ¹⁴Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
¹⁵Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
¹⁶And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
¹⁷Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
¹⁸Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? (Jer. 20:14‑18)

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John 4:3,8• ³He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.
⁸(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) (John 4:3,8)

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2 Cor. 7:10• ¹⁰For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. (2 Cor. 7:10)

• Self wrought and blinded her to her sister's lack of Jacob's heart of which she had the monopoly. It was envy, that base feeling which cannot endure another, even a sister's, having what she had not (“Jacob: 5. The Wives and Their Maids” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.