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17Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Proverbs 23:17 —
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Commentary
Matthew Henry
(vv. 17-18)Here is, 1. A necessary caution against entertaining any favourable thoughts of prospering profaneness: “ Let not thy heart envy sinners ; do not grudge them either the liberty they take to sin or the success they are to be pitied rather than envied. Their prosperity is their portion (Pr. 12:14), nay, it is their poison,” Prov. 1:32. We must not harbour in our hearts any secret discontent at the p...
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