Proverbs 3:30-32 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Strive not Either by words before the magistrate, or otherwise by thine actions; with a man without cause Without just and necessary cause; if he have done thee no harm Whereby it is clearly implied, that, in case of injury, a man may, by all lawful means, defend himself. Envy thou not the oppressor For his impunity and success in his wicked designs, and the wealth which he gains by unrighteous practices; and choose none of his ways For what men envy in others they seek to obtain for themselves. For the froward Or, perverse, who walks in crooked and sinful paths, as the oppressor last mentioned, opposed to the upright man, who is called right, or straight, Proverbs 29:27; is an abomination to the Lord And therefore, sooner or later, must be miserable. But his secret is with the righteous They are his friends and favourites, to whom he familiarly imparts, as men use to do to their friends, his mind and counsels, or his secret favours and comforts, to which other men are strangers.