Verse 17
Proverbs 23:17
Noah Webster Bible
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Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אַל יְקַנֵּ֣א לִ֭בְּ/ךָ בַּֽ/חַטָּאִ֑ים כִּ֥י אִם בְּ/יִרְאַת יְ֝הוָ֗ה כָּל הַ/יּֽוֹם
English Translation
Do not let your heart envy sinners, but be in the fear of the Lord all the day.
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Chapter 23 Context
1
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
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And put a knife to thy throat, if thou art a man given to appetite.
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Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food.
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Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.
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Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make to themselves wings; they f...
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Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties:
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For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not wit...
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The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
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Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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For their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause with thee.
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Apply thy heart to instruction, and thy ears to the words of knowledge.
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Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
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Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
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My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
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Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
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Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
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For surely there is an end; and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
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Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.
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Be not among wine-bibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
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For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
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Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy...
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Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.
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My son, give me thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways.
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For a lewd woman is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
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She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
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Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without caus...
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They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
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Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itse...
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At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
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Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
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And thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of...
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They have stricken me, wilt thou say , and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: w...
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