Psalms 37:1
Burn not with vexation because of evil-doers, Be not envious of the workers of perversity;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
In Context
2For, like grass, soon shall they wither, and, like green herbage, shall they fade.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6And her rival used even to cause her great vexation, for the sake of provoking her,—because Yahweh had restrained her from having children.
Psalms 37:7Be resigned to Yahweh, yea wait with longing for him; Burn not with vexation at him who prospereth in his way,—at the man who doeth wickedness.
Proverbs 3:31Do not thou envy the man of violence, neither choose thou any of his ways;
Proverbs 23:17Let not thy heart be envious of sinners, only of the reverence of Yahweh, all day long;
Proverbs 24:19Burn not with vexation against evil doers, be not envious of lawless men;
Galatians 5:21envyings, drunkenness, revellings;—and such things as these: as to which I forewarn you, even as I have forewarned you,—that, they who such things as these do practise, shall not inherit, God’s kingdom.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 37:1
This psalm is a sermon, and an excellent useful sermon it is, calculated not (as most of the psalms) for our devotion, but for our conversation; there is nothing in it of prayer or praise, but it is all instruction; it is "Maschil—a teaching psalm;" it is an exposition of some of the hardest chapters in the book of Providence, the advancement of the wicked and the disgrace of the righteous, a solution of the difficulties that arise thereupon, and an exhortation to conduct ourselves as becomes us under such dark… Read the whole commentary →