Holy Scripture
Genesis 37:4
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“Envy is a terrible passion, you see, and when it affects the soul, it does not leave it before bringing it to an extremely sorry state. [It damages] the soul that gives it birth and affect[s] the object of its envy in the opposite way to that intended, rendering him more conspicuous, more esteemed, more famous—which i…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4And his brethren having seen that his father loved him more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak anything peaceable to him.
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2And these are the generations of Jacob. And Joseph was seventeen years old, feeding the sheep of his father with his brethren, being young; with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father; and Joseph brought to Israel their father their evil reproach.
3And Jacob loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was to him the son of old age; and he made for him a coat of many colors.
— Genesis 37:4 —
5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and reported it to his brethren.
6And he said to them, Hear this dream which I have dreamed.