Bible verse
Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.
Proverbs 23:17 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 23.
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
14 Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
15 My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.
16 My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.
18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
KJV
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but [be thou] in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
ASV
Let not thy heart envy sinners; But be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:
ERV
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long:
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