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Selected Verse: Proverbs 24:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 24:1 |
Strong Concordance |
Be not thou envious [07065] against evil [07451] men [0582], neither desire [0183] to be with them. |
| |
King James |
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(Pro. 24:1-34)
(Compare Pro 23:3, Pro 23:17; Psa 37:1). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| A lesson given before, now combined with another. True followers after wisdom will admit neither envy of evil on the one hand, nor admiration or fellowship with it on the other. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
After this divergence (in Pro 23:29-35) from the usual form of the proverb, there is now a return to the tetrastich:
1 Envy not evil men,
And desire not to have intercourse with them.
2 For their heart thinketh of violence,
And their lips speak mischief.
The warning, not to envy the godless, is also found at Pro 3:31; Pro 23:17; Pro 24:19, but is differently constructed in each of these passages. Regarding תּתאו with Pathach, vid., at Pro 23:3. אנשׁי רעה (cf. רע, Pro 28:5) are the wicked, i.e., such as cleave to evil, and to whom evil clings. The warning is grounded in this, that whoever have intercourse with such men, make themselves partners in greater sins and evil: for their heart broodeth (write כּי שׁד, Munach Dech) violence, i.e., robbery, plunder, destruction, murder, and the like. With שׁד (in the Mishle only here and at Pro 21:7, cf. שׁדּד, Pro 19:26) connects itself elsewhere חמס, here (cf. Hab 1:3) עמל, labor, molestia, viz., those who prepare it for others by means of slanderous, crafty, uncharitable talk. |
1 A Psalm of David [01732]. Fret [02734] not thyself because of evildoers [07489], neither be thou envious [07065] against the workers [06213] of iniquity [05766].
17 Let not thine heart [03820] envy [07065] sinners [02400]: but be thou in the fear [03374] of the LORD [03068] all the day [03117] long.
3 Be not desirous [0183] of his dainties [04303]: for they are deceitful [03577] meat [03899].
3 Why dost thou shew [07200] me iniquity [0205], and cause me to behold [05027] grievance [05999]? for spoiling [07701] and violence [02555] are before me: and there are that raise up [05375] strife [07379] and contention [04066].
26 He that wasteth [07703] his father [01], and chaseth away [01272] his mother [0517], is a son [01121] that causeth shame [0954], and bringeth reproach [02659].
7 The robbery [07701] of the wicked [07563] shall destroy [01641] them; because they refuse [03985] to do [06213] judgment [04941].
5 Evil [07451] men [0582] understand [0995] not judgment [04941]: but they that seek [01245] the LORD [03068] understand [0995] all things.
3 Be not desirous [0183] of his dainties [04303]: for they are deceitful [03577] meat [03899].
19 Fret [02734] not thyself because of evil [07489] men, neither be thou envious [07065] at the wicked [07563];
17 Let not thine heart [03820] envy [07065] sinners [02400]: but be thou in the fear [03374] of the LORD [03068] all the day [03117] long.
31 Envy [07065] thou not the oppressor [0376] [02555], and choose [0977] none of his ways [01870].
29 Who hath woe [0188]? who hath sorrow [017]? who hath contentions [04079] [04066]? who hath babbling [07879]? who hath wounds [06482] without cause [02600]? who hath redness [02448] of eyes [05869]?
30 They that tarry long [0309] at the wine [03196]; they that go [0935] to seek [02713] mixed wine [04469].
31 Look [07200] not thou upon the wine [03196] when it is red [0119], when it giveth [05414] his colour [05869] in the cup [03563] [03599], when it moveth [01980] itself aright [04339].
32 At the last [0319] it biteth [05391] like a serpent [05175], and stingeth [06567] like an adder [06848].
33 Thine eyes [05869] shall behold [07200] strange women [02114], and thine heart [03820] shall utter [01696] perverse things [08419].
34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down [07901] in the midst [03820] of the sea [03220], or as he that lieth [07901] upon the top [07218] of a mast [02260].
35 They have stricken [05221] me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick [02470]; they have beaten [01986] me, and I felt [03045] it not: when shall I awake [06974]? I will seek [01245] it yet[03254] again.