CHAPTER 3
1 And now, my children, ⌈hearken unto me and⌉ beware of the spirit of deceit and of envy.
2 For envy ruleth over the whole mind of a man, and suffereth him ⌈neither to ᵃeat nor to drink⌉, nor to do any good thing.
3 But it ever suggesteth (to him) to ᵃdestroy him that he envieth; and so long as he that is envied flourisheth, he that envieth fadeth away.
4 Two years ⌈therefore⌉ I afflicted my soul with fasting in the fear of the Lord, and I learnt that deliverance from envy cometh by the fear of God.
5 For if a man flee to the Lord, the evil spirit runneth away from him, and his mind is lightened.
6 And henceforward he sympathiseth with him whom he envied and agreeth with those who love him, and so ceaseth from his envy.