If one lost something, and someone else just happened to gain something?

Coveting is wishing for someone else's possessions to be your own. Neither wishing to have the same thing (for you can work to buy your own copy of a thing just not his/her copy) nor wishing for your possessions back is coveting. Therefore the emotion is justified, but without proof, there are always questions that can be presented to cast the "shadow of doubt" necessary to get a vote of Innocent; such as: How do you know that it wasn't someone else's lambs that were stolen months ago or that the thief gave them to that neighbour as a gift? OR removing the idea of theft completely, how do you know that they weren't gifts properly given?

What emotion compels one to be suspicious? The desire for what belongs to you. For is it not said, "You are what you own" ?

It seems to me that the word Jealous (as in a jealous husband whose husbandly rights have been infringed) is actually the correct word to use if you have been cheated. What they are saying then when they say "you're just jealous" is that your response is purely emotional and they don't care, and that is because you are nobel creature who won't punish them without proof.

Your guilt at the mere prospect of falsely accusing them blinds you to the subtle clues that will provide you the proof that you need. (Learn to think like Sherlock Holmes.) You see, many people are base creatures who seek only their own ends and without providing the prospect of punishment, they will do as they please. (Because Hell doesn't exist in these people's minds, the prospect of eternal damnation has no power over them.)

Yes. It probably is the emotion of jealously that drives suspicion. Our maybe it is the bewilderment.

THIS IS TOTALLY COMFUSING