Proverbs 23:17 (BSB)

Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:17

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 23:17-18: Here is, 1. A necessary caution against entertaining any favourable thoughts of prospering profaneness: "Let not thy heart envy sinners; do not grudge them either the liberty they take to sin or the success they are to be pitied rather than envied. Their prosperity is their portion (Psa 73:3), nay, it is their poison," Pro 1:32.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 23:17: Let not thine heart envy sinners,.... Their present prosperity and happiness, the pleasure, profit, and honour, they seem to enjoy; all which is but a shadow, fading had temporary; and yet good men are apt to envy it in their hearts, if they do not express it with their lips; and are ready to murmur and think it hard that they should be in straitened...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:17: (Compare Margin). The prosperity of the wicked is short.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 23:17-18: Pro 23:17-18 The poet now shows how one attains unto wisdom - the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God: 17 Let not thine heart strive after sinners, But after the fear of Jahve all the day. 18 Truly there is a future, And thy hope shall not come to naught. The lxx, Jerome, the Venet., and Luther, and the Arab.