An elder may be envious because another elder has more ability. Envy can be found everywhere today and that includes in the church. But wherever it appears, it is still envy, it is still sin. I have read that one of the main reasons young people want to sell drugs is that they see the guy toward the top riding around in the limousine with fine clothes and all sorts of material possessions. They want to be a big man like he is.
Materialism breeds greed and envy.
It may start so innocently. I just have to have a car like that no matter what. School age children may come home dejected because they don't have something that a fellow classmate has. Envy dwells within the heart. We must give caution to this terrible sin of envy.