Genesis 30 (JND) - 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 kept the saying. (Gen. 37:11)

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1 Sam. 1:4‑8• ⁴And it came to pass on the day that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters portions;
⁵but to Hannah he used to give a double portion, for he loved Hannah; but Jehovah had shut up her womb.
⁶And her adversary provoked her much also, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.
⁷And as he did so year by year, as often as she went up to the house of Jehovah, she provoked her thus; and she wept and did not eat.
⁸And Elkanah her husband said 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• ¹⁶And they envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the saint of Jehovah. (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• ⁴And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind. (Eccl. 4:4)

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1 Cor. 3:3• ³for ye are yet carnal. For whereas there are among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man? (1 Cor. 3:3)

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Gal. 5:21• ²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:21)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various 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 emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. (James 3:14)

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James 4:5• ⁵Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously? (James 4:5)

or else I die.

Gen. 35:16‑19• ¹⁶And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing.
¹⁷And it came to pass when it went hard with her in her childbearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.
¹⁸And it came to pass as her soul was departing--for she died--that she called his name Benoni; but his father called him Benjamin.
¹⁹And Rachel died, and was buried on 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 kept the saying. (Gen. 37:11)

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Num. 11:15,29• ¹⁵And if thou deal thus with me, slay me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, that I may not behold my wretchedness.
²⁹But Moses said to him, Enviest thou for my sake? would that all Jehovah's people were prophets, and that Jehovah would put his Spirit upon them! (Num. 11:15,29)

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1 Kings 19:4• ⁴And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a certain broom-bush, and requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough: now, Jehovah, take 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, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
²And Job answered and said,
³Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
¹¹Wherefore did I not die from the womb,--come forth from the belly and expire?
²⁰Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
²¹Who long for death, and it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
²²Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave?-- (Job 3:1‑3,11,20‑22)

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Job 5:2• ²For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple. (Job 5:2)

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Job 13:19• ¹⁹Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire. (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 bore 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 Jehovah overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and a shouting at noonday,
¹⁷because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!
¹⁸Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame? (Jer. 20:14‑18)

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John 4:3,8• ³he left Judaea and went away again unto Galilee.
⁸(for his disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions). (John 4:3,8)

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2 Cor. 7:10• ¹⁰For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works 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.