Proverbs 24:19 (BSB)

Do not fret over evildoers, and do not be envious of the wicked.

From Proverbs 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 24:19

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 24:19-20: 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, Psa 37:1. 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, and expectations, we must acquiesce in it.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 24:19: For there shall be no reward to the evil man,.... No reward of good things, such as is for the righteous in a way of grace; but he shall have a reward of evil things, a just recompence of reward for his sins: of "no end" (r); there will be an end of his life in this world, and there will be an end of...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 24:19-20: Pro 24:19-20 Warning against envying the godless for their external prosperity: 19 Be not enraged on account of evil-doers, Envy not the godless; 20 For the wicked men shall have no future, The light of the godless is extinguished. Ver. 19 is a variation of Psa 37:1; cf. also Pro 3:21 (where with בכל־דרכיו following the traditional תבחר is more appropriate than תתחר, which Hupfeld would here insert).