Proverbs 3:31 KJV
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Proverbs 3:31, King James Version
In context
30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
32 For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 24:1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
- Psalms 37:1 A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
- Galatians 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
- Proverbs 23:17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.