Proverbs 3:31
Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Note the oppressor: Heb. a man of violence
Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
Envy thou not the man of violence, And choose none of his ways.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Envy
- Proverbs 23:17; Proverbs 24:1, 19, 20; Psalm 37:1, 7–9; Psalm 73:3; Galatians 5:21
- the oppressor
- Heb. a man of violence.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8
- choose
- Proverbs 1:15–18; Proverbs 2:12–15; Proverbs 12:12; Proverbs 22:22–25