Proverbs 24:1
New International Version
Do not envy the wicked, do not desire their company;

New Living Translation
Don’t envy evil people or desire their company.

English Standard Version
Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them,

Berean Standard Bible
Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;

King James Bible
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

New King James Version
Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them;

New American Standard Bible
Do not be envious of evil people, Nor desire to be with them;

NASB 1995
Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them;

NASB 1977
Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them;

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not be jealous of evil men, And do not desire to be with them;

Amplified Bible
Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them;

Christian Standard Bible
Don’t envy the evil or desire to be with them,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Don’t envy evil men or desire to be with them,

American Standard Version
Be not thou envious against evil men; Neither desire to be with them:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not envy evil men and do not lust to be with them.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
My son, envy not bad men, nor desire to be with them.

Contemporary English Version
Don't be jealous of crooks or want to be their friends.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them:

English Revised Version
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Do not envy evil people or wish you were with them,

Good News Translation
Don't be envious of evil people, and don't try to make friends with them.

International Standard Version
Don't be envious of wicked men or wish you were with them,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Be not thou envious of evil men, Neither desire to be with them.

Literal Standard Version
Do not be envious of evil men, | And do not desire to be with them.

Majority Standard Bible
Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;

New American Bible
Do not envy the wicked, nor desire to be with them;

NET Bible
Do not envy evil people, do not desire to be with them;

New Revised Standard Version
Do not envy the wicked, nor desire to be with them;

New Heart English Bible
Do not be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:

Webster's Bible Translation
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

World English Bible
Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;

Young's Literal Translation
Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them.

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Context
Do not Envy
1Do not envy wicked men or desire their company; 2for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.…

Cross References
Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

Psalm 37:1
Do not fret over doers of evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

Proverbs 1:15
my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

Proverbs 3:31
Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

Proverbs 23:17
Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.

Proverbs 24:19
Do not fret over evildoers, and do not be envious of the wicked.


Treasury of Scripture

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

neither

Proverbs 1:11-15
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: …

Proverbs 13:20
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Genesis 13:10-13
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar…

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Verse 1. - We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. Be not thou envious against evil men (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar warning is given, and comp. Ver. 19 below). "Men of wickedness," wholly given over to evil. Neither desire to be with them. Their company is pollution, and association with them makes you a partner in their sinful doings. The Septuagint prefaces the paragraph with the personal address, υἱέ "son."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

envy
תְּ֭קַנֵּא (tə·qan·nê)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7065: To be, zealous, jealous, envious

wicked
רָעָ֑ה (rā·‘āh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

men
בְּאַנְשֵׁ֣י (bə·’an·šê)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

or desire
תִּ֝תְאָ֗יו (tiṯ·’āw)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect Jussive - second person masculine singular
Strong's 183: To incline, desire

their company;
לִהְי֥וֹת (lih·yō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be


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