CHAPTER 4
1 And my father asked ⌈concerning me,⌉ because he saw that I was sad; and I said unto him, I am pained in my liver.
2 For I mourned more than they all, because I was guilty of the selling of Joseph.
3 And when we went down into Egypt, and he bound me as a spy, I knew that I was suffering justly, and I grieved not.
4 Now Joseph was a good man, and had the Spirit of God within him: being ᵃcompassionate and pitiful, he bore no malice against me; but loved me even as the rest of his brethren.
5 Beware, therefore, my children, of all jealousy and envy, and walk in singleness of
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heart,
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soul and good heart, keeping in mind Joseph your father's brother,
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that God may give you also grace and glory, and blessing upon your heads, even as ye saw in Joseph's case.
6 All his days he reproached us not concerning this thing, but loved us as his own soul, and beyond his own sons glorified us, and gave us riches, and cattle and fruits.
7 Do ye also, my children, love each one his brother with a good heart, and the spirit of envy will withdraw from you.
8 For this maketh savage the soul and destroyeth the body; it causes anger and war in the mind, and stirreth up unto deeds of blood,
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and leadeth the mind into frenzy,
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and leadeth the mind into frenzy, ⌈and suffereth not prudence to act in men;⌉ moreover, it taketh away ᵃsleep.
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[and causeth tumult to the soul and trembling to the body]
9 For even in sleep some malicious jealousy, deluding him, gnaweth, and with wicked spirits disturbeth his soul, and causeth the body to be troubled, and waketh the mind from sleep in confusion; and as a wicked and poisonous spirit, so appeareth it to men.