Proverbs 23:17
Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the Lord all the day.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
In Context
16and your lips shall converse with my lips, if they be right.
18For if you should keep these things, you shall have posterity; and your hope shall not be removed.
Cross References
Psalms 73:3Lift up your hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in your holy places. 1
Proverbs 3:31Procure not the reproaches of bad men, neither do you covet their ways.
Proverbs 24:1My son, envy not bad men, nor desire to be with them.
Proverbs 24:21My son, fear God and the king; and do not disobey either of them.
Ecclesiastes 5:6For there is evil in a multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear you God.
Ecclesiastes 12:13Hear the end of the matter, the sun: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole man.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:13-17
Parental Duties. 12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. 13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. 14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. 15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. 16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. Here is, 1. A parent instructing his child. He is here brought in persuading him to give his mind to his book,… Read the whole commentary →