Proverbs 14:30, LXX

[Just Some Dude]

14:30 A meek-spirited man is a healer of the heart: but a sensitive heart is a corruption of the bones.

I think I understand the last part, but I don't want to presume that I understand the second part. I doubt that word "sensitive" being used there is the same word "sensitive" that we uses nowadays. Again, this is the LXX, not the Hebrew? Any insights onto the matter?

[John Reece]

14:30 A meek-spirited man is a healer of the heart: but a sensitive heart is a corruption of the bones.

I think I understand the last part, but I don't want to presume that I understand the second part. I doubt that word "sensitive" being used there is the same word "sensitive" that we uses nowadays. Again, this is the LXX, not the Hebrew? Any insights onto the matter?

A New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS) is the feminine form of αἰσθητικός, the entry for which in LSJ is

αἰσθ-ητικός, -ή, -όν, of or for sense-perception, sensitive, perceptive, Pl.Ti.67a, etc.; ζῷα-κώτερα Thphr.Sens.29; αἰ. ἀναθυμίασις, of the soul, Zeno Stoic.1.39; τὸ αἰ. [τῆς ψυχῆς. Diog.Oen.Fr.39; ζωὴ αἰ. Arist.EN1098a2; quick, γραῦς Alex.65. Adv. αἰσθητικῶς, ἔχειν to be quick of perception, Arist.EE1230b37; κινεῖσθαι Arr.Epict.1.14.7, S.E.M.7.356; αἰ. ἔχειν ἑαυτοῦ, c. part., to be conscious of oneself doing, Ael.VH14.23; αἰ. γιγνώσκειν Procl.in Prm.p.754 S.

The word αἰσθητικός occurs no where else in the LXX but Proverbs 14:10 & 30. Here is the former:

14:10 LXX: καρδία ἀνδρὸς αἰσθητική λυπηρὰ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ ὅταν δὲ εὐφραίνηται οὐκ ἐπιμείγνυται ὕβρει (NETS: The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

Waltke considers 14:29-30 to semantically connected. Here is his translation and commentary re the connection in The Book of Proverbs Chapters 1-15 (NICNT: Eerdmans, 2004) via Accordance:

29 Patience is great competence,
but a quick temper is that which exalts folly.
30 Life in the entire body is a calm heart,
but hot passion is rot in the bones.

Here is Waltke's comment re verse 30:

30marpēʾ, not I marpēʾbᵉśārı̂m; see 4:22; 5:11). The unique plural bᵉśārı̂mProverbs] But hot passion (, see 3:31) is rot in the bones (

[Just Some Dude]

Yes, that was a typo. Thanks.

So you're that "excitable, "impatient," or some other synonym is a better translation than "sensitive" there. Strange, but oh well. Thank you very much.

[Cow Poke]

Yes, that was a typo. Thanks.

So you're that "excitable, "impatient," or some other synonym is a better translation than "sensitive" there. Strange, but oh well. Thank you very much.

I also like Young's Literal Translation:
[30]*A healed heart is life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones is envy.

And Darby:
[30]*A sound* heart is the life of the flesh; but envy the rottenness of the bones.

[Just Some Dude]

This thread is for the Greek LXX though, not for the Hebrew. (Unless there's something else I'm missing >.>). Thanks anyways.