Proverbs 24:19

The NET Bible®

Do not fret because of evil people or be envious of wicked people,

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not fret because of evildoersDo not be jealous of the wicked;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not fret because of evildoers Or be envious of the wicked;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Fret not thy selfe because of the malitious, neither be enuious at the wicked:

Darby Translation
Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, [and] be not envious of the wicked:

New King James Version
Do not fret because of evildoers, Nor be envious of the wicked;

Literal Translation
Do not burn in anger because of evildoers, and do not envy the wicked;

Easy-to-Read Version
Don't let those who are evil upset you, and don't be jealous of them.

World English Bible
Don't fret yourself because of evildoers; Neither be envious of the wicked:

King James Version (1611)
Fret not thy selfe because of euill men; neither be thou enuious at the wicked.

King James Version
Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let not yi wrath & gelousy moue ye, to foolow ye wicked and vngodly.

THE MESSAGE
29 Don't bother your head with braggarts or wish you could succeed like the wicked. Those people have no future at all; they're headed down a dead-end street.

Amplified Bible
Do not get upset because of evildoers, Or be envious of the wicked,

American Standard Version
Fret not thyself because of evil-doers; Neither be thou envious at the wicked:

Bible in Basic English
Do not be troubled because of evil-doers, or have envy of sinners:

Update Bible Version
Don't fret yourself because of evil-doers; Neither be envious at the wicked:

Webster's Bible Translation
Fret not thyself because of evil [men], neither be thou envious at the wicked;

Contemporary English Version

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Don't let evil people worry you or make you jealous.

Complete Jewish Bible
Don't get upset because of evildoers; don't be envious of the wicked.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Fret not thy selfe because of the malicious, neither be enuious at the wicked.

George Lamsa Translation
Do not envy evildoers nor be jealous of the wicked;

Hebrew Names Version
Don't fret yourself because of evildoers; Neither be envious of the wicked:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious at the wicked;

New Living Translation
Don't fret because of evildoers; don't envy the wicked.

New Life Bible
Do not worry yourself because of those who do wrong, and do not be jealous of the sinful.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Rejoice not in evil-doers, neither be envious of sinners.

English Revised Version
Fret not thyself because of evil-doers; neither be thou envious at the wicked:

Berean Standard Bible
Do not fret over evildoers, and do not be envious of the wicked.

New Revised Standard
Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not envy the wicked;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Burn not with vexation against evil doers, be not envious of lawless men;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Contend not with the wicked, nor seek to be like the ungodly.

Lexham English Bible
Do not fret because of the evildoers; do not envy the wicked.

English Standard Version
Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked,

New American Standard Bible
Do not get upset because of evildoers Or be envious of the wicked;

New Century Version
Don't envy evil people, and don't be jealous of the wicked.

Good News Translation

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Don't let evil people worry you; don't be envious of them.

Christian Standard Bible®
Don't be agitated by evildoers, and don't envy the wicked.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Stryue thou not with `the worste men, nether sue thou wickid men.

Revised Standard Version
Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked;

Young's Literal Translation
Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not envious at the wicked,

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Do not fret because of evil people or be envious of wicked people, ²⁰ for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Fret: or, Keep not company with the wicked. Proverbs 13:20, Numbers 16:26, Psalms 1:1, Psalms 26:4, Psalms 26:5, Psalms 119:115, 2 Corinthians 6:17, Ephesians 5:11, 2 Timothy 3:2-5, Revelation 18:4

neither: Proverbs 24:1, Proverbs 23:17, Psalms 37:1, Psalms 73:3

Reciprocal: Proverbs 3:31 - Envy 1 Peter 2:1 - envies

Cross-References

Genesis 24:14
I will say to a young woman, ‘Please lower your jar so I may drink.' May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, ‘Drink, and I'll give your camels water too.' In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master."

Genesis 24:45
"Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.'

Genesis 24:46
She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I'll give your camels water too.' So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.

1 Peter 4:9
Show hospitality to one another without complaining.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Fret not thyself because of evil [men],.... Because of their outward prosperity and worldly happiness, any more than rejoice at their adversity; neither do the one nor the other; where the one prevails, the other does also; by the frequent repetition of this advice, it looks as if this evil is what good men are prone to, and which was very common in Solomon's time, and in the time of his father David, from whom he seems to have borrowed these words, Psalms 37:1; see Proverbs 23:17;

neither be thou envious at the wicked; though they may stand when thou fallest, or be in prosperity when thou art in adversity; the reasons follow.