Proverbs 24:1

Be not thou envious. Do not get excited. Compare Proverbs 23:17.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A lesson given before, now combined with another. True followers after wisdom will admit neither envy of evil on the one hand, nor admiration or fe...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 24:7 a. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an ob...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. Evil men, neither desire to be with them - i:e., to share in their ways...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perpe...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. Through...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Be not thou envious against evil men ,.... Or, "men of evil" b. Such who are addicted to evil, and given up to it, whose principles and practices ar...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. Ver. 1. Be not thou envious against evil men. ] Heb., Men of evil - such as...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Be not thou envious , &c. The proneness of good men, especially while they are weak, and only in the beginnings of their course of piety and vir...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of misc...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

PROVERBS CHAPTER 24 Their company or manner of life.
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 24:5 . A man of knowledge , rather “ a man of understanding ,” increaseth strength , literally “ maketh power strong .”...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 24:1 . Be not envious against evil men. Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1 ; Psalms 73 ; Proverbs 17:1 . Why should we envy the wic...
The Biblical Illustrator

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. Evil men not to be envied The first verse of this chapter is very natural...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. Be not thou envious against evil men (see on Proverbs 23...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 1. Be not thou envious against evil men, desiring their company on account of their apparent prosperity and good fortune, neither desire to be...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 5:19-21 ; Genesis 13:10-13 ; Genesis 19:1-11 ; James 4:5 ; James 4:6 ; Proverbs 1:11-15 ; Proverbs 13:20 ; Proverbs 23:17 ; Prover...

¹ Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 24:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 24:1