Proverbs 24:21
Beni (my son), fear thou Hashem and the Melech, 1 and do not associate with them that are otherwise disposed. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 14:31And Yisroel saw the yad hagedolah which Hashem did upon the Egyptians; and HaAm feared Hashem, and put their trust in Hashem, and in His eved Moshe.
1 Samuel 8:5And said unto him, Hinei, thou art old, and thy banim walk not in thy drakhim; now appoint for us a Melech to judge us like kol HaGoyim.
1 Samuel 24:6And it came to pass afterward, that the lev Dovid smote him because he had cut off the corner of Sha'ul.
2 Samuel 18:8For the milchamah was there scattered over the face of kol ha'aretz; and the ya'ar devoured more people that day than the cherev devoured.
1 Kings 12:16So when kol Yisroel saw that HaMelech paid heed not unto them, HaAm answered HaMelech, saying, 1 What chelek have we in Dovid? 1 Neither have we nachalah in Ben Yishai; 1 to your ohalim, O Yisroel! 1 Now see to thine own Bais, Dovid! So Yisroel departed unto their ohalim.
Proverbs 23:17Let not thine lev envy chatta'im, 1 but be thou in the Yirat Hashem kol hayom. 1
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:20-21
19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; 20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. Here, 1. He repeats the caution he had before given against envying the pleasures and successes of wicked man in their wicked ways. This he quotes from his father David, Ps. xxxvii. 1 . We must not in any case fret ourselves, or make ourselves uneasy, whatever God does in his providence how disagreeable soever it is to our sentiments, interests,… Read the whole commentary →