# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 10: Simeon 3

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/10 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**10:1** And now, children, take heed of the spirit of deceit and of envy.

**10:2** For envy ruleth over the whole mind of a man, and suffereth him neither to eat, nor to drink, nor to do any good thing: it ever suggesteth to him to destroy him that he envieth; and he that is envied ever flourisheth, but he that envieth fades away.

**10:3** Two years of days 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.

**10:4** If a man flee to the Lord, the evil spirit runneth away from him, and his mind becometh easy.

**10:5** And henceforward he sympathizeth with him whom he envied, and condemneth not those who love him, and so ceaseth from his envy.

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