Genesis 30 (WK) - 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 were envious of Moses in the camp,{HR}Of Aaron, saint of Jehovah. (Psa. 106:16)

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Prov. 14:30• ³⁰A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh,{HR}But envy the rottenness of the bones. (Prov. 14:30)

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Eccl. 4:4• ⁴Then I saw all labour and every skilful work,{HR}That for this a man is envied of his neighbour.{HR}This also is vanity and a striving after wind. (Eccl. 4:4)

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1 Cor. 3:3• ³for ye are yet carnal. For whereas emulation and strife [are] among you, 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 forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:21)

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Titus 3:3• ³For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gone astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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James 3:14• ¹⁴But if ye have bitter emulation and faction in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. (James 3:14)

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James 4:5• ⁵Or think ye that the scripture saith in vain? Doth the Spirit that took his dwelling in us long unto envy? (James 4:5)

or else I die.

Gen. 35:16‑19• ¹⁶And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was yet some way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and it went hard with her in childbirth.
¹⁷And it came to pass when it went hard in her bearing, 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 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 Jehovah, 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 Job opened his mouth{HR}and cursed his day;
²And Job answered and said,
³Perish the day wherein I was born,{HR}And the night that said, A man is conceived.
¹¹Why did I not die from the womb—{HR}Come forth from the belly, and expire?
²⁰Wherefore giveth he light to the wretched one,{HR}And life to the bitter [in] soul;
²¹Who long for death, and it [is] not,{HR}And dig for it more than for hid treasure;
²²Who rejoice to dancing,{HR}Exult when they find the grave? (Job 3:1‑3,11,20‑22)

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Job 5:2• ²For grief killeth a fool,{HR}And jealousy slayeth the simple. (Job 5:2)

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Job 13:19• ¹⁹Who is he [that] will contend with me?{HR}Then indeed I would be silent, and 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 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 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 Judea and went away [again] into Galilee.
⁸(for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy provisions). (John 4:3,8)

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2 Cor. 7:10• ¹⁰For grief according to God worketh repentance to salvation not to be regretted: but the grief of the world worketh out 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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