Psalms 37:1
Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
In Context
2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6And her adversary also provoked her sore, in order to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
Psalms 37:7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
Proverbs 3:31Envy you not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Proverbs 23:17Let not yours heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Proverbs 24:19Fret not yourself because of evil men, neither be you envious at the wicked:
Galatians 5:21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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 →