God's Wisdom and Envy

As we have seen over the past six weeks, Proverbs is a book designed to help us live skillfully in a broken and complicated world. One threat to this glorious joy is envy. Ancient writers called it the second most serious and prevalent of all sins (after pride). 27:4 Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming but who can stand before jealousy?  Like pride, it is a sin of the spirit, not of the flesh.  Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it is the one vice that its perpetrators never enjoy and rarely confess. I want to answer the following questions: What is envy? What is the cost of keeping envy as a friend? How can we overcome it?