Yaakov 3:16

16 For where kina and anochiyut are, there is tohu vavohu (disorder, chaos) and every ra’ah.

Yaakov 3:16 Meaning and Commentary

Ver. 16 For where envying and strife is
Where these are cherished in the heart, and especially where they break out into action, in families, neighbourhoods, states, or churches:

there is confusion and every evil work;
these occasion disturbances, raise uneasiness, make disquietude, and cause tumults whenever they appear; and put persons upon doing everything that is wicked, to gratify such insatiable lusts.

Yaakov 3:16 In-Context

14 But if bitter kina (jealousy) you have and anochiyut (selfishness) in your levavot, do not boast and speak sheker against HaEmes.

15 This is not the Chochmah coming down and descending from above, but is of the Olam Hazeh, of this world and of shedim.

16 For where kina and anochiyut are, there is tohu vavohu (disorder, chaos) and every ra’ah.

17 But the chochmah from above is berishonah (in the first place) tehorah (pure), then ohevet shalom (peaceloving), then eidel (gentle) and considerate, then full of rachamim and p’ri tov, and without maso panim and tzevi’ut.

18 And the p’ri haTzedek is shalom sown by the ones making shalom. (Prov 11:18; Isa 32:17; Hos 10:12]